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Cities forge world's largest alliance to curb climate change
2016-06-22 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Cities in six continents joined up to form the world's largest alliance to combat climate change on Wednesday, a move intended to help making ground-level changes to slow global warming. More than 7,100 cities in 119 countries formed the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, a network for helping exchange information on such goals as developing clean energy, organizers said. Cities are responsible for an estimated 75 percent of carbon emissions contributing to climate change and consume...
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Flat science budgets could kill the Arecibo Observatory, the worlds largest telescope
2016-06-22 21:27:28| Extremetech
The Arecibo telescope has been a landmark observatory for 50 years, but limited funding could see the facility shut down in the near future.
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World's priciest cities for expats revealed
2016-06-22 02:38:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Hong Kong is the world's most expensive city for expats leapfrogging Angolan capital Luanda in the annual chart compiled by consultancy firm Mercer.
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NOAA: Worlds Worst Coral Bleaching Event to Continue With No Signs of Stopping
2016-06-21 17:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts 2016 will be another year with significant coral bleaching; and scientists see no end in site. NOAA expects the bleaching event to hit the U.S. hard, especially in Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Florida Keys, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, according to a June 20 news release. The administration`s Coral Reef Watch believes there`s a 90 percent chance of widespread bleaching in the Pacific...
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World?s First 24/7 Solar Power Plant Powers 75,000 Homes
2016-06-21 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eco Watch: SolarReserve`s Crescent Dunes Project in Tonopah, Nevada is quietly providing clean, green solar energy to 75,000 homes in the Silver State even when the sun isn`t shining. Crescent Dunes is the first utility-scale facility in the world to use molten salt for power energy storage capabilities, a technology also known as concentrated solar. With a concentrated solar plant such as Crescent Dunes--including other plants like it around the world--more than 10,000 movable mirrors, or heliostats,...
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