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EU member states say biofuels limit needs more thought
2013-02-22 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Limits must be imposed on the use of biofuels made from food crops, leading EU member states France and Britain said on Friday, while questioning the detail of a Commission proposal for a 5 percent cap. Concern that some biofuels create more problems than they solve led to a major policy shift in September when the EU executive announced plans to limit the use of crop-based biodiesel and bioethanol to 5 percent of total transport fuel consumption. Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on Friday...
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Asteroid may have killed dinosaurs quicker than scientists thought
2013-02-08 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Dinosaurs died off about 33,000 years after an asteroid hit the Earth, much sooner than scientists had believed, and the asteroid may not have been the sole cause of extinction, according to a study released Thursday. Earth's climate may have been at a tipping point when a massive asteroid smashed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and triggered cooling temperatures that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers said. The time between the asteroid's arrival, marked by a 110-mile-(180-km-)wide...
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Baumgartner's supersonic freefall: Faster than you thought
2013-02-05 19:47:00| CNET News.com
Red Bull Stratos releases the final data from Felix Baumgartner's breathtaking skydive last October. Seems he got to Mach 1.25, not the woeful Mach 1.24 of the previous estimate. [Read more]
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Global Warming May Be Curable, And Not Quite As Bad As We Thought
2013-01-25 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: New estimates from a Norwegian research project show that policymakers attempting to contain global warming at less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit have an attainable target. While most news that comes out about global warming is typically negative and ominous, this study has put a slightly more positive twist on the unfolding story of climate change. These results are truly sensational, said Caroline Leck of Stockholm University, who evaluated the Norwegian project. If confirmed by other studies,...
Animal kingdom is smaller than we thought (but thats good news)
2013-01-24 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: How many species are there? It was a question that fascinated Charles Darwin, and generations of biologists who followed him, with recent estimates ranging from a few million to as many as 100 million now scientists believe the true number of animals and plants is nearer to 5 million. The incredible diversity of life on Earth and the sheer scale of the taxonomic problem have mesmerised biologists trying to figure out the total number of living species. But a group of biologists believes the...
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