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Oil Baron's Descendants Shame Exxon Mobil 'Morally Reprehensible Conduct'
2016-03-24 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The Rockefeller Family Fund is divesting from major segments of the fossil fuel industry, the fund said in an announcement that also singled out Exxon Mobil for blistering criticism. The nonprofit trust, which was started by the heirs of the industrial-era oil monopolist John D. Rockefeller, called Exxon Mobil's alleged efforts to cover up evidence of climate change "morally reprehensible conduct' in a Wednesday statement. The fund, which provides grants to further environmentalism, women's...
Memory Lane: Old Somerby's Walter and Minnie have 450 descendants
2015-10-25 02:46:36| Apparel - Topix.net
Congratulations, you're now registered! Let us know what news and updates you want to hear about and we'll send them straight to your inbox. A much-loved Old Somerby couple were honoured at a family gathering this year, where there were plenty of people to remember them given that they have an incredible 450 descendants.
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Millions of modern men found to be descendants of 11 Asian dynastic leaders
2015-03-09 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Study suggests that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 ancient leaders, including Genghis Khan Sample examined the Y chromosomes of 5,000 Asian men from 127 populations Historical nomadic and mobile populations allowed for Y chromosomes to be spread far and wide Geneticists from the University of Leicester have discovered that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 powerful dynastic leaders who lived u…
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Descendants of slaves hold out against coal mining in Texas town
2013-09-02 14:36:37| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Ida Finley smiles wistfully, recalling how she used to cook for an entire East Texas community - nearly all descendants of slaves. The children would grab cornbread, greens and cookies from her kitchen while their parents grew vegetables in a tiny creekside village hidden among pine forests. "It's been so long," she muses, gazing at old photos that dot the walls of her nursing home room some 30 miles from Dirgin. Now, just weeks from her 102nd birthday, Finley faces the prospect of losing the...
Interview: Leaving our Descendants A Whopping Increase in Sea Levels
2013-07-24 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Last week, a group of scientists led by Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research released a paper that made a stark forecast: For every 1 degree Celsius of temperature increase, the world will eventually experience a 2.3-meter increase in sea level. That means that should carbon emissions continue to rise at or near current rates, and temperatures soar 4 to 5 degrees C in the next century or two, the world could well experience sea level increases of many meters -- dozens...
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