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China on track to meet climate change targets
2013-04-29 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: China continues to increase its renewable energy use as the Asian nation works towards lowering growth in carbon emissions, a new report says. The federal government's climate commission released a report today showing the world's two largest economies, China and the United States, are on the path to meet their international commitments on climate change. Chief commissioner Tim Flannery says China is set to become a global leader on climate change. "China has halved its growth in electricity demand,...
Oil by train runs out of track
2013-04-27 16:58:59| Railroads - Topix.net
An aerial image shows a train entering a depot along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line outside of Williston, N.D. Just as analysts say Canadian rail use is set to soar again, shipping oil by rail may no longer be economic, Schaeffer writes.
Now you can track the inexorable progress of climate change on Twitter
2013-04-26 23:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In 1958, Charles Keeling began measuring the the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Decades later, scientists at the Mauna Loa Observatory are still measuring, creating "the world`s longest unbroken record" of that data. They`re the ones responsible for the upkeep of this famous graph: It must be kind of terrifying to track carbon concentrations on a daily basis as they tick slowly upwards. And sometimes when you`re watching something depressing, you just have to share it. So the Scripps...
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New Web Site to Track CO2 Levels as Planet Approaches 400 ppm
2013-04-25 04:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: As atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide approach the milestone of 400 parts per million (ppm), a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has launched a Website that will publish daily readings of CO2 concentrations, an online resource he hopes will drive home the urgent threat of rising greenhouse gas emissions. Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps CO2 program and son of the first scientist to measure CO2 concentrations, hopes the daily tracker will attract more attention than...
GSK: reforms on track as Q1 profit falls a quarter
2013-04-24 16:30:43| Biotech - Topix.net
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has reported a 26 percent drop in profits in the first quarter compared to a year ago, as it restructures its manufacturing and research and development divisions.
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