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California's War Over Water Has Farmer Fighting Farmer
2015-06-04 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Rudy Mussi is not the California farmer you've been hearing about. He is not fallowing all his fields or ripping up his orchards due to a lack irrigation water. For Mussi and most of his neighbors in the bucolic Sacramento Delta, the water is still flowing reliably from the pumps and into the canals lining the fields. "If you had to pick a place where you would say, 'Okay, where should I stick my farm?' You'd come to the Delta," he says. As he steers his pickup through ripening wine grape...
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European executives take lead in fighting climate change
2015-06-02 19:16:03| Chemicals - Topix.net
The top European oil companies unveiled their strategy for addressing climate change on Monday, but unfortunately the Americans are too tied to rightwing politics to take a leadership role. The unprecedented move by BP Plc, Eni SpA, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Statoil ASA, Total SA and BG Group Plc to promote natural gas as an alternative to coal and to embrace a global carbon tax to reduce emissions demonstrates both a respect for science and public opinion.
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Portland is committed to fighting housing discrimination
2015-05-19 20:51:03| PortlandOnline
Read what Commissioner Dan Saltzman had to say in the Oregonian about what Fair Housing audit testing reveals and what the City is doing about unequal treatment in our housing market.
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Fighting for finance in a low oil price environment
2015-05-15 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
The oil price crash is putting billions in offshore oil investments at risk, and the finance environment for new projects is tougher than ever. Infield Systems transaction services manager Dr Wei Liu discusses the options open to companies especial
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Fattened up coral could be better at fighting climate change
2015-05-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: Like a jock beefing up for a big game, some corals could do far better at withstanding the heavy blows of climate change when pumped with supplements, according to a new University of Miami study. The study looked at endangered staghorn coral, a fast-growing branching coral that once provided the scaffolding for much of Floridas reef system. For the first time, the research found that vanishing staghorn might have a shot at withstanding the withering effects of increasingly warmer and more acidic...
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