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Climate Change = Drought = Violance

Mar 03 2015 09:50 PM | eds in Pollution

A scientific team, . . . began with some evidence that Syria’s 2007−2010 drought . . . (the worst drought on record there, . . . which caused widespread crop failure, and . . . spurred a rapid exodus of 1.5 million from farms to the cities) . . . contr...

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#pollution: Health Costs

Jul 29 2017 03:10 PM | eds in Pollution

New Delhi, India, costs in 2013 and 2014: . . . . . . $16.9 billion dollars, on Oil, Gas, and Coal subsidies, and . . . . . . $140.7 billion dollars, on air pollution linked health costs. 7-29-2017 Source: #Pollution: Health costs

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Coal-Fired Power Plants

Nov 18 2015 07:50 PM | eds in Pollution

The U.S. and several other key global players–including: . . . . . . France, . . . . . . the World Bank, . . . . . . the European Investment Bank, and . . . . . . the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, . . . have already limited its expo...

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Society 'to Be Hit By Climate Change'

Nov 16 2015 02:45 PM | eds in Pollution

We emit 9 gigatons of carbon per year from our burning of fossil fuels, . . . but there's a 100 gigatons lying just under the Siberia tundra. You have many-fold larger stores of carbon in the topsoil of tropical soils, . . . or under the ice in th...

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Jeremy Rifkin On Climate Change

Feb 18 2016 08:00 PM | eds in Pollution

Jeremy Rifkin on Climate Change

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The Carbon Era

May 21 2016 06:10 PM | eds in Pollution

The Carbon Era: . . . Can we really afford to keep up our bad habits?

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The "carbon" Bathtub

Nov 06 2013 01:00 AM | eds in Pollution

The "Carbon" Bathtub. It’s simple, really: . . . As long as we pour CO2; into the atmosphere, . . . faster than nature drains it out, . . . the planet warms. And that extra carbon takes a long time to drain out of the tub. Plants, oceans, and...

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Texas Invaded By Crazy Ants

Jun 30 2013 02:05 PM | eds in Pollution

They're called crazy because of their unpredictable movements and . . . swarming populations. The bug is reddish-brown, about an 1/8 of an inch long and . . . has a hankering for honey dew — with a side of electronics. The insects nest anywhere a...

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Fukushima Delays Restarting Other Nuclear's

Sep 02 2013 10:20 PM | eds in Pollution

Public concern over Fukushima, . . . revived by the news of leaks of radiated water at the plant, . . . have threatened to further delay the restart of other off-line reactors, . . . a key part of the Government's plan for economic revival and . ....

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