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Ghana destroys hundreds of homes in capital in bid to prevent floods
2015-06-21 01:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Bulldozers razed hundreds of homes and businesses in the poor Sodom and Gomorrah neighborhood of Ghana's capital on Saturday so the authorities can start widening a lagoon to prevent a repeat of this month's deadly floods. Some residents said security forces sprayed them with tear gas after they threw stones to protect their livelihoods from the bulldozers. By evening, thousands were stranded in the rain amid rubble and household goods strewn for more than a mile. "What they have done is not...
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Focusing on Air Quality Could Prevent 2.1 million deaths per year
2015-06-20 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Improving air quality in clean and dirty places could potentially avoid millions of pollution-related deaths each year. That finding comes from a team of environmental engineering and public health researchers who developed a global model of how changes in outdoor air pollution could lead to changes in the rates of health problems such as heart attack, stroke and lung cancer. Outdoor particulate air pollution results in 3.2 million premature deaths annually, more than the combined impact of...
New FAO Guide Aims to Prevent Child Labour in Agriculture
2015-06-18 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - A new guide by FAO aims to help ensure anti-child labour measures are included in agricultural and rural development programmes, in particular those targeting family farmers.
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Researchers find synergy between lithium polysulfide and lithium nitrate as electrolyte additives prevent dendrite growth on Li metal anodes
2015-06-17 18:55:48| Green Car Congress
New Spaceship Antenna Could Prevent Radio Blackout During Re-Entry
2015-06-17 17:39:27| rfglobalnet Home Page
Scientists from theHarbin Institute of Technology in Chinahave proposed a new way to maintain communication with spacecraft as they re-enter the atmosphere. The approach might also be applied to other hypersonic vehicles such as futuristic military planes and ballistic missiles.
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