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Philippines: To fight climate change, Mindanao's farmers look to agroforestry
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GMA Network: As farmers suffer the brunt of global warming's relentless advance, agroforestry seems a viable technique for a better quality and higher yield of harvest despite worsening climate conditions. Around 400 farmers in Columbio and Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat, and 400 more farmers from Lanuza, Surigao del Sur are looking into agroforestry to cope with diverse forms of economic shocks and climate vulnerabilities, said Dante A. Dalabajan, Project Manager of Oxfam's Building Resilient and Adaptive Communities...
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Monsanto bets $5M in Wash. fight over GMOs
2013-10-26 10:44:59| Chemicals - Topix.net
Monsanto Co. and DuPont Co., among the biggest makers of bioengineered crop seeds, are persuading Washington state voters to change their minds about a proposal to require labels on genetically modified food.
Jack Daniel's in legal fight with small distiller
2013-10-25 21:18:36| Food - Topix.net
A white whiskey named for a famed Appalachian moonshiner started out being sold in Mason jars, to honor its roguish roots, but switched to square-shaped bottling.
Icahn turns up heat on Apple, hints at proxy fight over $150 billion buyback
2013-10-25 20:47:10| InfoWorld: Top News
Billionaire trading activist and agitator Carl Icahn yesterday turned the heat up on Apple, saying he would "test the waters" with a proxy fight if the company's board doesn't yield to his demand for an historic $150 billion stock buyback.
GE drops legal fight over running tar sands megaloads on Idaho highway
2013-10-25 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A General Electric Co subsidiary has dropped its appeal of a federal court order barring a massive shipment of tar sands oil-field equipment from being trucked along a scenic Idaho roadway that cuts through the Indian homelands of the Nez Perce Tribe. The company's legal capitulation was hailed by tribal officials and environmental groups as a major victory in their three-year struggle against so-called megaload transports, a dispute at the forefront of a larger battle over oil and gas development...
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