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A Pipeline Threatens Our Family Land

2014-07-12 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: MOUNTAIN LAUREL, tufted with pink blooms each spring, and leathery emerald rhododendron line the Tucquan Glen, a steep hollow in southern Lancaster County, Pa. The Tucquan Creek, home to towering tulip poplar and oak trees and the occasional red fox, rushes over natural rock dams and plunges into secluded swimming holes before it meets the Susquehanna River and continues to the Chesapeake Bay. I know this creek, the way it tastes and sounds, because I grew up with it, playing in the ferns and...

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Unhappy Feet: Global Warming Threatens Emperor Penguins

2014-06-30 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: The biggest threat to emperor penguins may not be leopard seals or even killer whales, but a much larger predator: global warming. Climate change, which is quickly melting the sea ice this species depends on for survival, could cause dramatic drops in the number of emperor penguins across Antarctica by the end of the century, a new study finds. Specifically, more than two-thirds of Antarctica's emperor penguin colonies will decline by more than 50 percent by the end of the century under future...

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Fast-growing Weed Threatens Iowa farms

2014-06-23 02:29:49| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

A fast-growing, tough-to-control weed that has tormented farmers in the southern U.S. has been found in Iowa.

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Meet the Project That Threatens 3D Systems Corporation

2014-06-22 20:33:11| Electronics - Topix.net

This gives it the leading market opportunity of any 3-D printing company. However, the company also faces significant challenges as Patents concerning 3D Systems' selective laser sintering technology, or SLS, expired earlier this year, paving the way for Andreas Bastian's open-source OpenSLS project , a fraction of the $500,000-$750,000 a top-line ... (more)

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