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Mediterranean could be in driest spell for 900 years
2016-03-14 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The drought that has blighted the eastern Mediterranean since 1998 could be the worst in nine centuries, according to new research led by scientists from the US space agency Nasa. They report in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres that they used a tree-ring chronicle trees accurately reflect the rainfall conditions of each year in their annual growth to establish what had happened. They found that although the island of Cyprus and the bordering nations of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,...
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CH2M Marks Eight Consecutive Years As An Ethisphere World's Most Ethical Company
2016-03-14 04:45:25| chemicalonline Home Page
The Ethisphere Institute has spent a decade helping to define and advance ethical business practice standards, and has announced CH2M on its list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for an eighth consecutive year. Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies program honors companies that excel in three areas
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A look at the cost of 5 years of conflict in Syria
2016-03-12 08:23:39| Real Estate - Topix.net
18, 2013 shows a volunteer adjusting a students gas mask and protective suit during a session on reacting to a chemical weapons attack, in Aleppo, Syria. . FILE - In this file photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, Russian air force pilots assisted by ground crew climb into their fighter jet at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria.
Crops poised for longest rally in four years
2016-03-12 04:33:57| Food - Topix.net
Agriculture prices are heading for the longest rally in four years, as adverse weather and rising demand finally help to reduce the outlook for global gluts of food supplies. Sugar and soybeans reached their 2016 highs on Friday.
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Five Years After Nuclear Disaster Fukushima Remains Highly Contaminated
2016-03-11 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: It has been five years since a powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. While a few towns closed after the disaster have reopened and some locals have returned, groundwater en route to the ocean, as well as nearby soils, remain highly contaminated with radioactive waste. Toxic water and soil that has been removed by the cleanup projects 8,000 workers sit in a growing number storage tanks on the property, several of which...
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