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Pedestrian Killed, More Bear Sightings, New Grocery Store Chain: News Nearby
2016-03-25 11:34:46| Grocery - Topix.net
Top posts in Va. and D.C., including Cherry Blossom photos. Plus, how you can share your local news, events and pics at Patch.
Poor will bear brunt of proposed sugar tax
2016-03-01 07:18:17| Sugar Industry News
According to the IOL, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhans plan of introducing a sugar tax on sugar-sweetened beverages is likely to hurt the poor the most.
For normally stoic farmers, stress of climate change can be too much to bear
2016-02-28 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: The wind was unusually strong, and it swept across Saskatchewan farmland without warning or mercy to canola farmers who had just cut and laid out their crops to dry. Kim Keller, 31, remembers the mid-September day clearly. It was 2012, her first year working back on the familys 4,900-hectare grain farm in Gronlid, a hamlet about 200 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon. An auto insurance adjuster for the previous six years, Keller realized after a decade away that the farm is where she yearned to...
Climate change threatening polar bear population, group says
2016-02-27 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: The polar bear needs your help. Today is International Polar Bear Day, and it was started back in 2011 to celebrate and protect one of the world's largest and most threatened land predators. Polar Bears International began the observation and says the massive bears are threatened by climate change. Polar bears are found in arctic regions, including Alaska, Canada and Russia. Annually, sea ice around the North Pole is in decline, affecting quality of life for the polar bear. Polar Bears International...
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Time, BBC & others drive historic deal protect Canada Great Bear Rainforest
2016-02-27 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Earlier this month, a groundbreaking agreement was reached to prohibit logging in the majority of the 6.4m-hectare Canadian rainforest known as the Great Bear Rainforest a stretch of coastal ecosystem nearly the size of Ireland. The winners in the deal were environmental groups and the First Nations peoples who call the land their ancestral home. But there was also a less obvious contingent: an international assortment of business interests that used their influence to push for a deal. More...
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