INFO COM TECH (ICT) DEVICES COULD ENABLE 20% REDUCTION OF GLOBAL CARBON EMISSIONS BY '30 by holding emissions at '15 levels. Also may increase ag yields 30%, save 25B bls oil/yr, save 300T liters of water/yr .... Species vanishing 100x faster than in past: study .... Warm river water killing hundreds of chinook salmon in OR .... USDA $17.5M for wetlands restoration .... Brazil oil pipeline spill tainting wetlands, Atlantic .... Chile replanting forests to stave off encroaching desert .... US shale drillers' debt now up to $235B in 1Q15, they're spending over $4 for every $1 earned lately. (How long you think that will last?) .... Iraq/Kurd exports through Turkey down to 200Kb/d in June from 451K in May. "Technical difficulties" cited. Overall Iraq exports 3.2Mb/d in June, up from 2.7M in May after separating Basra light from Basra heavy .... Pentagon having difficulty finding enough motivated Iraqis to participate in military training .... Assad's forces dropping barrel bombs (with or without chlorine gas) on medical centers. Sisi expects Assad to fall "at any minute" .... Yemen peace talks ended Friday with no agreements. ISIS car bombs in Sana targeted Houthis. 20M in desparate need of food, water .... (Just pause a few seconds, right here, and think about that, pards. 20M in desparate need of food, water, med. That's why I still want to fly in supplies and fly out ambulatories, children and women.) .... China stock market capitalization up 3x in past year to 84x projected earnings. (Historical avg for S&P 15x earnings.) .... Putin says Russia to deploy 40 new ICBMs. (Thanks, Vlad, for the good feelings there on that.) .... France, Belgium seized Russia govt assets as part of court settlement to compensate $50B of loss from Yukos confiscation in '03 .... UK's installed offshore wind surpassed 5Gw .... Transphorm raised $70M in finance round .... Lemon vest for indigestion .... Onward and upward, pards.