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ABS Group, Inc In Quebec, Canada Automated With ULIMS Civil Engineering
2015-03-06 05:16:45| plantautomation News Articles
Founded in 1993, ABS Group, Inc. operates in the areas of geotechnical engineering materials, environment, applied geology and civil engineering expertise
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How climate change contributed to Syria's civil war
2015-03-06 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MPR: A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science draws a connection between climate change and the civil war in Syria. A devastating drought in the region from 2007 to 2010 forced a mass migration to the cities. That dramatic social change fomented a rebel movement and government backlash that has killed more than 200,000 people since 2011, according to the United Nations. The Pentagon has listed climate change as a national security thread since 2010. Last...
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New Study Says Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian Civil War
2015-03-03 01:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: By now, it's pretty clear that we're starting to see visible manifestations of climate change beyond far-off melting ice sheets. One of the most terrifying implications is the increasingly real threat of wars sparked in part by global warming. New evidence says that Syria may be one of the first such conflicts. We know the basic story in Syria by now: From 2006-2010, an unprecedented drought forced the country from a groundwater-intensive breadbasket of the region to a net food importer. Farmers...
Global warming helped trigger Syria's civil war
2015-03-02 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Manmade global warming helped spark the brutal civil war in Syria by doubling to tripling the odds that a crippling drought in the Fertile Crescent would occur shortly before the fighting broke out, according to a groundbreaking new study published on March 2. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to attribute the drought in Syria in large part to global warming. In doing so, it provides powerful evidence backing up the Pentagon and...
Civil War Profiles: A Union general, a female spy and two Delawareans in the Shenandoah Valley
2015-02-20 04:15:41| Chemicals - Topix.net
Anyone who held Unionist political leanings while living in Winchester, Va., during the Civil War years had to be particularly circumspect to avoid the wrath of secessionist neighbors. Therefore, when a young schoolteacher named Rebecca Wright received a note furtively delivered to her from Union Maj.
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