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Student shoots herself to death after wounding schoolmate at Texas high school

2016-09-09 18:30:00| American School & University

Girl died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at Alpine High School in Alpine, Texas. read more

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Student shoots herself to death after wounding schoolmate at Texas high school

2016-09-08 18:55:00| American School & University

Girl died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at Alpine High School in Alpine, Texas. read more

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Amitav Ghosh: 'climate change is like death, no one wants to talk about it'

2016-09-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Speaking at a literary festival in Bhutan, the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh recently predicted that Himalayan regions, for no fault of their own, will face a catastrophe as climate change takes hold. So chilling was Ghosh that the local paper reported only half in jest that a disturbed audience had to be soothed by a subsequent talk by Buddhist monks. Ghosh, best known for his historical novels, has been travelling the world talking about his new book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change...

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Climate change like death, an inevitability we must face

2016-09-06 03:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Morning Herald: Our attitudes to climate change are becoming like our attitude to death: we know we must face up to it one day, but right now we'd prefer to think about something else. This may explain why the media's coverage of a potentially breakthrough report from the government's Climate Change Authority focused on environmentalists' criticisms of it rather than its actual content. Similarly, why focus on the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, using the G20 meeting...

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