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Level of Plastic Waste in the Ocean Higher than Previously Thought
2015-02-13 16:27:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/">PBS</a> About 8 million metric tons of plastic waste makes its way into the oceans each year, according to a study published today by a group of scientists at the UC Santa Barbaras National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. The number is expected to increase unless countries are able to turn off the faucet, Kara Lavender Law, one author of the study, said. read more
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BA Employees Thought 'Unsuccessful Robber' Was A Joke
2015-02-04 05:58:15| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Police said 24-year-old Jeremiah Marshall targeted a strip of businesses along North Elm Tuesday morning, but the employees had a hard time taking him seriously. Marshall kept walking to the business next door, Gerber Collision and Glass, where they had a lobby full of customers.
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A climate hawk separates energy thought experiments from road maps
2015-01-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Dot Earth - New York Times blog energy A Climate Hawk Separates Energy Thought Experiments from Road Maps By Andrew C. Revkin January 27, 2015 5:24 pm January 27, 2015 5:24 pm Email Share Tweet Save More Photo Credit David Roberts, the progressive environmental blogger who coined the phrase climate hawk, has done the environmental community a great service with a Grist post stressing the difference between a vision of a climate-safe energy future and a strategy for making...
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Climate change could impact poor much more than previously thought
2015-01-26 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its widely accepted that climate change will have bigger negative impacts on poorer countries than wealthy ones. However, a new economic modeling study finds that the economic impacts on these poorer countries could be much larger than previous estimates. As a result, they suggest that we should be aiming to limit global warming to near, or perhaps even less than the international target of 2°C. This conclusion is in sharp contrast to current economic models, which generally conclude that the...
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Climate & population are linked but maybe not way you thought
2015-01-24 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Its not a topic that comes up in high-level international negotiations on climate change. Yet who would disagree that when individuals and couples use modern contraception to plan childbearing according to a schedule that suits them, they tend to have fewer children than they would otherwise? Could it be that this aspect of family planning, multiplied hundreds of millions of times, might lessen the severity of human-caused climate change and boost societies capacity to adapt to it? The Intergovernmental...
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