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Climate change could have devastating effect on India’s monsoon season

Mother Nature Network: More than a billion people in India currently depend on the rainy monsoon season for the water […]

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Hot Air: Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change?

Columbia Journalism Review: The small makeup room off the main floor of KUSI`s studios, in a suburban canyon on the […]

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Changes in Sea Saltiness Show We’re Affecting the Climate

Climate Central: The question of how human activity affects hurricanes has been much on peoples’ minds lately, for obvious reasons. […]

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Climate change may lead to failure of Indian monsoons

Zee News: Global warming caused by extensive human interference in the environment will likely result in failure of Indian monsoon […]

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Cockatoo shows tool-making skills

A Goffin’s cockatoo has surprised researchers by spontaneously making and using “tools” to reach food.

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Water supply ‘at weather’s mercy’

A new report blames the government for leaving the UK’s water resources at mercy of the weather.

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Fulton Elementary Schools Students Get Energy Education at First Annual Fall 2012 STEM Day

(1888PressRelease) greeNEWit partners with the Howard County Public School System to identify energy saving opportunities for students and families in Howard […]

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greeNEWit’s Creative Social Project Cleats for Bare Feet Donates to DC Score’s Fall Frenzy

(1888PressRelease) Cleats for Bare Feet, the creative project sponsored by greeNEWit, donated second-hand cleats (athletic shoes) and sporting equipment to children […]

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Newest Model of LCR-meter Smart Tweezers Available Now in 27 Countries Worldwide from Bokar International

(1888PressRelease) Canadian manufacturer Siborg Systems Inc. and Pennsylvania based Bokar International have joined efforts to market the electronics tester on 5 […]

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LatentView Ranked 12th Fastest Growing Technology Company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2012

(1888PressRelease) Company Revenue Grew 369% Percent Over 3 Years.

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Rockwell Automation Appoints Asia-Pacific Connections as its PR Agency of Record for FY2013

(1888PressRelease) Today, Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, appointed Asia-Pacific Connections (APC) to provide strategic […]

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The Museum Of Discovery and Science Elects A New Member To The Board Of Trustees

(1888PressRelease) Robert M. Roselli Elected to the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Discovery and Science.

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Gary Petty, National Private Truck Council CEO, is the Featured Speaker at the 2012 NationaLease Sales Meeting, November 13-15 in Fort Lauderdale

(1888PressRelease) NationaLease will hold its 2012 Sales Meeting November 13-15 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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Sandy’s aftermath causes nightmare commute, housing crisis

Reuters: Commuters battled unruly crowds and snarled traffic to return to work Monday, a week after superstorm Sandy devastated the […]

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Water supply ‘at weather’s mercy’

BBC: A new report blames the government for leaving the UK’s water resources at the mercy of the weather. The […]

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Obama and Romney remain silent on climate change, the biggest issue of all

Guardian: Here’s a remarkable thing. Neither Mitt Romney nor Barack Obama – with the exception of one throwaway line each […]

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Ad Uses Hurricane Sandy to Bash Mitt Romney Over Climate Change

U.S. News and World Report: In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy’s destruction, a haunting political ad hammering Mitt Romney’s climate […]

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Global warming: Climate change needs action but it has a cost

Financial Times: The plodding pace of global talks on curbing climate change is familiar to anyone with an interest in […]

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It’s not just Sandy: U.S. hit by record droughts, fires, and heatwaves in 2012

Mongabay: As the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy-killing over 100 people and producing upwards of $50 billion in damage along […]

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Ash disease legal action planned

A nursery forced to destroy 50,000 ash trees because of a fungal disease may take legal action against the government […]

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Campaigners angry at growth bill

Campaigners accuse the government of creating a developers’ charter with its Growth and Infrastructure Bill being debated in the Commons […]

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52 cases of ash dieback disease

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says there have now been 52 confirmed cases of ash dieback […]

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Clean Car Standards Shows Way Forward on Solving Climate Change

NRCD: The tragedy of Hurricane Sandy has brought into sharp relief the high costs of ignoring taking action to address […]

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United Kingdom: More than 500 inspecting woodland every day for ash dieback – but is it "too little too late"?

Telegraph: More than 500 members of Forestry Commission staff, many of whom do not even work in plant disease, have […]

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In perfect storm, would D.C. have fared any better than New York?

Washington Post: A surge of water 15 feet above normal races up the Potomac River. Ten inches of rain, swelling […]

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Rough Brothers Announces the Acquisition of the Assets of XS Smith

(1888PressRelease) Rough Brothers Inc. has designed, engineered, manufactured and installed greenhouses and related systems since 1932. For over 75 years, the […]

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Vyom Labs Partners with BMC Software as a ‘BMC Authorized Education Partner’

(1888PressRelease) Vyom Labs appointed as BMC Software’s Authorised education partner to cement its long standing relationship with BMC Software.

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U.S. disaster relief in a race against freezing cold

Reuters: Fuel supplies headed toward disaster zones in the U.S. Northeast on Saturday and a million customers regained electricity as […]

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Research boss Wingham in trouble over British Antarctic Survey claim

Guardian: The research council chief who controversially tried to close down the British Antarctic Survey has been ordered to explain […]

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United Kingdom: Forests, phone masts, roads – how our leaders scorn the countryside

Guardian: When the Conservative MP Oliver Letwin toured his West Dorset constituency last June, he was moved to describe the […]

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