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...Japanese barberry are often cultivated for their beauty and hardiness. Green-thumbed Americans spend $9 billion a year on plants, flowers and trees, but what so many avid gardeners don't know is that by introducing an unfamiliar species to their local topography, they could be triggering a domino effect of significant environmental damage. Though most of the thousands of non-indigenous plants on the market are harmless, the few varieties that cause trouble have sprouted in every corner of the U.S. landscape...
...results are certainly the strongest out there yet…there is a dramatically strong effect or association that we see,” said lead author Marc G. Weisskopf, an assistant professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology at HSPH...
...kind of overt Islamist doctrine that got its predecessors in trouble. Instead, it has built a record based on reforming Turkish democratic and economic institutions to fit E.U. standards. The ostensible aim has been to boost Turkish prosperity and to bring the nation into Europe. A side effect has been to weaken the role of the military in Turkey's political life and to strengthen religious and minority rights. The result: a de facto challenge to the secular establishment that has dominated Turkish society since the country's foundation...
...encouraging IPOs, the government is also trying to manage a troublesome side effect of the country's rapid economic development. China's citizens have few investment options. Interest rates on savings deposits don't even keep pace with inflation. So many have dumped their growing savings into real estate, resulting in speculative property bubbles in major cities that have driven house prices beyond the reach of average people. The fact that property prices in places have declined while stock prices have soared is not an outcome that displeases the government. "If the new listings diverted some savings that were otherwise...
...annually--almost entirely from deforestation. Living trees absorb CO2, and as they are cut down or burned, they release their stored carbon into the air. Trees also absorb sunlight, warming the earth, but in the tropics their ability to absorb CO2 and promote cloud formation has a net cooling effect. In addition, thinning forests mean fewer trees to soak up the carbon emitted by industry and transport. Deforestation is responsible for about 20% of global carbon emissions, more than from all the cars, boats and planes in the world. Plenty of programs plant trees to offset emissions...