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India: Climate Change and Population Growth Meet Along the Brahmaputra River
2013-01-23 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A multichannel mammoth stretching up to 10 kilometers (six miles) wide, the Brahmaputra River in Assam causes havoc every year when it floods. Now climate change is intensifying the hydrological cycle. Brian Orland, a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow, is starting a nine-month study on climate change adaptation along the Brahmaputra River, where the environment challenges the region faces are likely to be repeated in other parts of developing Asia. His relationship with the Brahmaputra began at a Mumbai...
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Wind River Develops Software Platform For Hyundai MOBIS In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems
2013-01-22 10:00:00| autocentral News Articles
Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, recently announced its partnership with Hyundai MOBIS, a leader in auto parts in Korea, for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems
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Climate Change Hits the Mississippi River
2013-01-18 19:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Beast: Here on the east coast, global climate change means earlier springs. Who can object to that? But elsewhere, the costs are harsher. For months along the Mississippi River here, the withering drought has caused record-breaking low water levels that have threatened to shut down traffic on the worlds largest navigable inland waterway. The fact that the river has remained open for business along the critical Middle Miss -- the 200 miles between the Mississippis last dam-and-locks structure,...
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Vietnam and Cambodia tell Laos to stop $3.5bn Mekong river dam project
2013-01-18 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Vietnam urged Laos to halt construction of a $3.5bn (2.2bn) hydropower dam on Mekong River pending further study, environmental activists said on Friday. Cambodia, downriver from the Xayaburi dam, accused Laos of failing to consult on the project, activists said. The Mekong River commission (MRC), made up of member states Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, held a three-day meeting in northern Laos to discuss river development projects. The dam in northern Laos, the first of 11 planned for the...
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Chevron buys exploration blocks in Pearl River Mouth Basin, offshore China
2013-01-17 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
US-based energy company Chevron said its subsidiary Chevron China Energy Company has signed production sharing contracts (PSC) with China National Offshore Oil (CNOOC), for two exploration blocks in the Pearl River Mouth Basin in the South China Sea.
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