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'50 Dirtiest' US Power Plants Emit More Greenhouse Gases than South Korea
2013-09-13 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The study by Environment America paints a bulls-eye on the nations biggest coal-fired power plants, suggesting that reining in a relatively small share of America's 6,000 electric generating facilities could have a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The report comes as the Obama administration is preparing the nations first-ever greenhouse gas emissions regulations for US power plants, which could be released as soon as this month. The administrations goal is to have power plant...
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Samsung claims first with SRVCC launch in Korea
2013-09-09 13:43:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Samsung Electronics announced that for the first time Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) is available to customers. Samsung said it's the first to make the service commercially available, starting with customers in Korea using mobile devices with the Samsung Modem Chipset SHANNON222. SRVCC supports voice call handover from packet-switched Voice over LTE (VoLTE) to circuit-switched 3G voice (WCDMA) when users are out of LTE coverage areas. Without this service, the VoLTE call is automatically dropped when the user leaves LTE coverage. The SRVCC service is available on the Galaxy S4 LTE smartphone as of August in Korea.
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South Korea extends ban on Japanese fish imports
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: South Korea has extended its ban on Japanese fisheries products over fears of contamination from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Consumption of fish products in South Korea has dropped sharply in recent weeks as Japanese workers struggle to contain leaks at the tsunami-wrecked facility. The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) has admitted that highly toxic water may have made its way into the Pacific Ocean. The company also says up to 300 tonnes of mildly radioactive groundwater...
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South Korea Bans Fish Imports from Fukushima & Seven other Japanese Prefectures
2013-09-06 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: South Korea announced a ban of all fish imports from eight of Japan's prefectures, citing concerns over possible environmental impacts regarding the recent and highly publicized leaks of contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. Fukushima prefecture, where the beleaguered Dai-ichi nuclear plant is located, is on the list, in addition to a swath of prefectures along Japan's northeast coast, as well as two landlocked prefectures. The move will be a blow to...
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South Korea bans fish imports from Japan's Fukushima region
2013-09-06 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: South Korea has banned all fish imports from a large area of Japan in response to growing concern over the possible environmental impact of recent leaks of highly toxic water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In Japan, the row over the plant operator's handling of the leaks deepened on Friday when the head of the country's nuclear watchdog issued a stern rebuke to Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) for causing unnecessary alarm overseas by releasing "scientifically unacceptable" information...
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