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Fighter against domestic abuse steps down after three decades
2014-10-13 09:17:52| Chemicals - Topix.net
After nearly 30 years as Cornerstone's executive director, Susan Neis will retire at year's end. She was seen at Cornerstone Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, in Bloomington, MN.
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Decades later, Wright Amendment lifted at Dallas Love Field
2014-10-12 10:42:30| Airlines - Topix.net
The 1979 amendment, which restricted long-haul flights out of Dallas Love Field, was enacted to protect the new Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, built jointly by Fort Worth and Dallas. With Delta Air Lines announcing in 2004 that it was dropping from 200 flights a day to 20, DFW Airport still needed that protection, they argued.
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Coral Bleaching Event: Worst in Decades
2014-10-07 18:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Scientists are frantically monitoring Hawaii's unusual windless coast, finding that elevated sea surface temperatures are severely stressing corals near the shoreline, causing a major coral bleaching event that's even more intense than one seen two decades ago. "Unfortunately, we are seeing evidence of wide-spread bleaching in shallow, near shore waters of windward Oahu," Frazer McGilvray, the administrator of the Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) Coral Rapid Response Team, said in a recent...
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Climate change is happening despite two decades of UN climate talks
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IBT: World leaders have been trying to forge a global treaty on climate change for more than two decades. But persuading countries to abandon profitable fossil fuels -- and instead spend trillions of dollars on new technology and environmental protections -- has proved nearly impossible. The Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, expired two years ago with little discernable impact on greenhouse gas emissions. (The United States signed, but never ratified, the agreement.) Attempts to work out a successor...
Two Decades Until Carbon Budget Is Eaten Through
2014-09-21 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If the planet's carbon budget, which is the amount of fuel we can burn, concrete we can pour and forest we can fell without blowing global warming goals, was a giant cake, then we'd all be running out of dessert -- fast. We've got about a third left. We've been eating into the carbon budget since the Industrial Revolution. Just nibbling at first, but now with record relish. Figures published Sunday warn delegates attending Tuesday's U.N. Climate Summit in New York that, at the rate we're going,...
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