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Mussels off the menu within 85 years due to climate change
2016-07-06 07:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Moules-frites and moules mariniere will be largely consigned to the pages of culinary history by the end of the century, scientists have predicted. The increasing acidity of the oceans due to climate change means that farming or fishing for mussels will be commercially unviable by 2100. Researchers at Washington University in Seattle have established that a mussel's ability to grip to a rock or rope is dependent on the acidity of the surrounding sea. The molluscs have to cling in place for...
Five Years After Independence South Sudan Faces Myriad Challenges
2016-07-06 02:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: South Sudan, the world's newest country faces myriad problems five years after achieving independence, aid agencies warned this week. South Sudan which achieved independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, is on the brink of economic collapse, development organisation Oxfam warned Tuesday. South Sudan's economy relies heavily on oil, and it is one of many developing countries to have suffered from low oil prices in recent years. "Plummeting oil price and oil production all but grinding to a...
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INDA Celebrates 25 Years of Filtration Event
2016-07-05 21:35:00| Nonwovens Industry Breaking News
Special events set for Philadelphia later this year
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Pollution Still Killing Thousands, 60 Years Since Clean Air Act
2016-07-05 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Clean Air Act, introduced 60 years ago, still does not prevent the death of thousands of people in Scotland. In a decisive and successful response to the Great Smog of 1952 that killed 12,000 people, the Clean Air Act of 1956 introduced controls on industrial pollution and the burning of coal. However, since the 1950s traffic levels have sky-rocketed and air pollution now claims over 2,500 lives in Scotland annually. Friends of the Earth Scotlands Air Pollution Campaigner, Emilia Hanna,...
Ostrich relative lived in North America 50 million years ago
2016-07-05 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â This is a nearly complete skeleton of Calciavis grandei, a close relative of ostriches, kiwis, and emus. Credit: Rick Edwards/American Museum of Natural History Exceedingly well-preserved bird fossil sp…
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