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2008 Financial Crisis Redux?

2016-02-23 17:05:00| National Real Estate Investor

Steady Investor It's hard to blame investors for fearing the worst. The 2008 financial crisis is still fairly fresh in our memories and it's tempting to apply the same logic. read more

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Groundwater Crisis Worsens Food Insecurity

2016-02-23 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Sijabuliso Nleya has been kept busy in the past few weeks digging up sand. He is not a sand poacher like scores of people who local district councils across the country say are digging along dry river beds for sand used in the construction of houses. "The situation is terrible," said Nleya, who owns a plot in Douglasdale, a small farming community on the outskirts of Bulawayo. Together with other men, he has been filling up dry wells and boreholes, as groundwater increasingly becomes an unforeseen...

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Fiji super cyclone kills 10 & raises fears of health crisis

2016-02-21 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Fiji began a massive cleanup on Monday after one of the most powerful storms recorded in the southern hemisphere tore through the Pacific island nation, flattening remote villages, cutting off communications and killing at least 10 people. Aid agencies warned of a widespread health crisis, particularly in low-lying areas of the country where thousands of the country's 900,000 people live in tin shacks, after crops were wiped out and fresh water supplies blocked. Many people remained hunkered...

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Flint water crisis: EPA concerned with 'inadequate' state and city response

2016-02-20 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said it has serious concerns over the inadequate response to the Flint toxic water crisis by both the city and Michigan officials, pointing to a lack of expert help on the ground and a failure to provide a proper water treatment plan. In a letter to the Michigan department of environmental quality (MDEQ), Mark Pollins, director of the EPAs water enforcement division, said Flint has not yet demonstrated that it has an adequate number of qualified...

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Venezuela acts to ease economic crisis

2016-02-18 01:19:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Venezuela raises petrol prices for the first time in 20 years as part of a series of measures aimed at easing the country's economic crisis.

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