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Measles: Fight against the virus dates back centuries
2015-02-16 13:49:08| Biotech - Topix.net
AP File Photo/Damian Dovarganes A single-dose vial of the measles-mumps-rubella virus vaccine live, or MMR vaccine, is shown at the practice of Dr. Charles Goodman in Northridge, California, on Jan. 29. Some doctors are adamant about not accepting patients who don't believe in vaccinations, with some saying they don't want to be responsible for someone's death from an illness that was preventable. Others warn that refusing treatment to such people will just send them into the arms of quacks.
Swamps, wetlands may be key in fight against climate change
2015-02-16 05:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: Swamps and wetlands could be 50 times more effective than rain forests in storing carbon, an Australian scientist researching the topic said Monday. Researchers at Victoria's Deakin University found swamps bank up to one-third of the carbon found in terrestrial soils, yet only occupy 4 percent of the planet's land surface. They are confident that wetlands will be a huge carbon sink that was missing in previous global carbon budgets. Senior lecturer in freshwater ecology, Rebecca Lester, told the...
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Countries adopt draft text for accord fight climate change
2015-02-15 13:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Roughly 200 countries agreed to draft language for an agreement to tackle climate change on Friday. Reuters reports government delegates adopted an 86-page draft as the foundation for negotiations on the pact, which is expected to be finished later this year. "Although it has become longer, countries are now fully aware of each others positions, said Christiana Figueres, the head of the U.N. climate change secretariat, referring to an earlier 38-page document which formed the basis of discussions....
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Activists Want Fracking Ban in Denver, CO; Oil Backers Ready to Fight
2015-02-12 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Business Journal: Colorado's fracking wars arrived at Denver city hall Tuesday, with a coalition of 25 groups that included some of the standard bearers of the anti-fracking movement in the state delivering a statement calling for Mayor Michael Hancock and the City Council to ban the use of hydraulic fracturing within the city limits. "We think it's just a matter of time before they start fracking in Denver," Sam Schabacker, the western region director for Food & Water Watch, who's been working on the fracking...
Tesla continues fight with auto dealerships in Arizona, Texas
2015-02-12 01:19:21| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Franchised dealers, who have long enjoyed a state-mandated monopoly on retail car sales, appear to feel threatened by the automaker's direct sales scheme for electric cars . Attempts by Tesla to sell cars in both states have failed so far, but that doesn't mean the debate is over.
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