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Looking to sky to fight climate change
2013-01-06 05:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: One afternoon last fall, Armand Neukermans, a tall engineer with a sweep of silver bangs, flipped on a noisy pump in the back corner of a Sunnyvale lab. Within moments, a fine mist emerged from a tiny nozzle, a haze of salt water under high pressure and heat. It didn't look like much. But this seemingly simple vapor carries a lot of hope - and inspires a lot of fear. If Neukermans' team of researchers can fine-tune the mechanism to spray just the right size and quantity of salt particles into...
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Frantic fight to save frogs from killer fungus
2013-01-06 04:36:58| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In moist, mossy rooms, rows of glass aquariums bathed in an eerie light shelter the last of the last of the frogs. It is a secure facility, for here reside the sole survivors of their species, rescued from the wild before a modern plague swept through their home forests and streams in a ferocious doomsday event that threatens these amphibians with extinction. Time is running out. In what may be the greatest disease-driven loss of biodiversity in recorded history, hundreds of frog species around...
Neighbors prepare to fight liquor sales
2013-01-06 00:02:28| Energy - Topix.net
Some neighborhood groups in the International District of Albuquerque have fought and won their battles to stop liquor sales where they live.
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AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink embroiled in ADSL patent fight with Brandywine
2013-01-04 08:41:40| Grocery - Topix.net
In a number of U.S. court complaints, Brandywine claims that a number of telcos and CLECs have infringed on seven different DSL-related patents that it says it owns.
Canada: The Gloves are Off in the Youth Climate Change Fight
2013-01-02 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: It's fitting that in Canada, 2013 would be rung in not with a chorus of Auld Lang Syne, but instead to the sounds and sights of blockades, round dances and the drums of Idle No More. The Indigenous-led movement that is inspiring people around the globe comes after a year of political awakening across Canada -- a year that saw historic mobilizations from the Quebec student movement to Defend Our Coast. But, the past year has also made the cold math of a warming world even starker. From record setting...
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