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Wal-Mart reports weak 1st-quarter sales, blames weather, tax issues
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported slight upticks in revenue and profit in its first quarter, but the retail behemoth still missed Wall Street’s expectations and watched its stock suffer in morning trading. The Bentonville, Ark., mega-chain blamed...
Tags: Earnings Forecasts, Weather Reports, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says
WASHINGTON -- Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world, according to a new study released Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study’s authors looked at 50,000 common species....
Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Change, Ecosystems
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James Turrell shapes perceptions
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Air Transportation Industry, Starbucks Corp., Volcanoes
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Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants
POOLESVILLE, Md. — On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a century. Burning mostly coal and some natural...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Electricity Production and Distribution, Conservation, Mining, Metal and Mineral
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Rainbows, rain and colors: dramatic sunset in L.A.
Evening shower made for a dramatic sunset in the Los Angeles area Thursday. The National Weather Service said the sporadic rain will continue through the night. A flood warning was issued for parts of the Inland Empire near creeks and rivers. Friday...
Tags: Weather Warnings, National Weather Service
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Climate change may be baring Mount Everest
A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found. Rocks and natural debris previously covered by snow are appearing now as the snow...
Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Nepal, Water Supply, National Parks
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Citizen scientists: Help crowd-source climate change research
Citizen scientists, environmentalists and anyone who lives near a power plant -- your services are requested. Climate change scientist Kevin Robert Gurney needs your help in a grand undertaking: the mapping of all the power plants in the world. It's a...
Tags: Plant Openings, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Arizona State University, Global Change
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The heat is on: Temps climb into the triple-digits in L.A. County
As the clock ticked on, the sun continued to shine and the mercury continued its climb toward record temperatures across Los Angeles County on Monday afternoon. By 2 p.m. several cities were close to marking heat records, an official from the...
Tags: Weather Reports, Weather Warnings, National Weather Service
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Another day of record-setting heat expected
A break in the heat is coming -- just not yet. As a high-pressure system remains settled over Southern California, residents should expect another day of record-setting high temperatures on Monday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Bruno,...
Tags: Weather Reports, National Weather Service
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Satellite images show 'double jeopardy' wildfire danger
When it comes to Southern California’s increasingly perilous fire season, you can blame it on the rain. That’s the paradoxical case made by satellite data from NASA and India. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at...
Tags: Satellite Technology, Weather Reports, Wildfires, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology
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Global warming ruins SoCal Mother's Day
News flash: Global warming hits California! That’s right -- the Golden State has become the Golden Baking State, with temperatures soaring into the triple digits. For example, in Johnny Carson’s “beautiful downtown Burbank” on...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Al Gore, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Change
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Earth's climate changed dramatically when CO2 hit 400, study says
Wondering where Earth’s climate is headed with an atmosphere that is 400 parts per million carbon dioxide? An arctic bare of ice sheets, forested in pine and fir, with summer temperatures about 14 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today were...
Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Ecosystems, Science and Technology
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