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Salus Capital CEO Leaves Firm Following RadioShack Losses
2015-04-27 04:56:24| Food - Topix.net
Customers browse inside a RadioShack Corp. store that is closing in New York. The 2013 loan to RadioShack was by far the largest by Salus Capital, the Needham Heights, Massachusetts-based lender, which caters to distressed companies.
Keeping up climate: efforts reduce African crop losses face extra hurdle of climate change
2015-04-21 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Farmers in tropical areas have long struggled to maximize their crop yields, but the strikes against them just continue to mount. To start with, they tend to lack storage and processing tools that industrialized countries take for granted -- things like refrigeration, ovens, and grain elevators. On top of that, they're working the land in places where climate change may already be wielding its effects, making disease, rainfall patterns, and crop yields less predictable. Africa, Latin America,...
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Amazon rainforest losses impact on climate change, study shows
2015-04-21 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Human activity has removed more than one-tenth of trees and plants from the Amazon rainforest since the 1960s, a study shows. Widespread removal of trees has contributed to a rise in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, increasing the potential impact of climate change, researchers say. Deforestation of the Amazon accounted for 1.5 per cent of the increase in carbon dioxide levels seen since the mid-nineteenth century, the team says. However, this …
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Improved Immunity, Stepped Up Biosecurity Credited for Reduced PED Losses
2015-04-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The executive director of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians credits changes in the immune status of the US swine herd and stepped up biosecurity for the reduction in losses resulting from PED, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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CME: PEDv Piglet Losses Down this Year
2015-04-15 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Larger hog slaughters have provided ample evidence that piglet death losses have been substantially lower this year, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.
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