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A Minneapolis start-up threatens to upend commercial real estate
2014-12-22 08:36:03| Real Estate - Topix.net
Pat Hagen, left, Jim Simpson, Klay DeVries and Matt Christianson, of Crelow, the Minneapolis start-up launching a site that promises to revolutionize the commercial real estate market. The software works to cut out the middle layers, much like Priceline.com does with airlines.
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Permafrost thaw threatens Arctic infrastructure
2014-12-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Global warming is changing the Arctic - while some herald the opportunities that come with easier access, the thaw could literally yank the ground out from under communities. DW talked to an expert about the risks. DW: Why should we be concerned about warming and thawing in the Arctic? Hugues Lantuit: Permafrost is frozen ground in the Arctic, and it's currently warming at a fast pace. What we've done in a European Union project is to build for the first time an integrated database on permafrost...
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Amazon indigenous land loss threatens climate, says study
2014-12-04 04:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Scientists say destroying indigenous areas of the Amazon rainforest will have an irreversible impact on the atmosphere of the planet. A new study said indigenous lands were "protected natural areas" accounting for 55% of the carbon stored in the Amazon basin. It said this land was at risk because governments had failed to recognise or enforce indigenous land rights. The report was released on the first day of UN climate talks in Peru. The study said nearly 20% of the Amazon forests are...
Climate Change Threatens Bees: More Evidence
2014-11-26 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: With the threat neonicotinoid use poses to honeybees gaining international attention, researchers are now focused on finding other factors that are contributing to a worrying decline in bees across the globe. Climate change, they say, is certainly to blame, and parasites may be one reason why. That's at least according to a team of researchers at Queen's University Belfast, who have found evidence that the spread of an exotic parasite that threatens the UK's honeybee population could be sped up...
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India's coal rush threatens to make global warming irreversible
2014-11-26 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Brisbane Times: Decades of strip mining have left this town in the heart of India's coal fields a fiery moonscape, with mountains of black slag, sulfurous air and sickened residents. But rather than reclaim these hills or rethink their exploitation, the government is digging deeper in a coal rush that could push the world into irreversible climate change and make India's cities, already among the world's most polluted, even more unlivable, scientists say. "If India goes deeper and deeper into coal, we're all...
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