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UK flooding: Environment Agency boss Lord Smith engulfed in crisis over his 11 jobs

2014-02-01 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Lord Smith's leadership of the Environment Agency is in crisis following the flooding gripping parts of Britain. Sources have accused Lord Smith, a Cabinet minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, of "keeping his head down' despite parts of the country being submerged for weeks. Allegations that he is "too distracted' by having too many jobs -- in all Lord Smith has 11 paid and unpaid posts -- have added to the growing concern in Whitehall. Although he is due to step down as chairman...

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Is America facing a beer crisis?

2014-02-01 04:24:34| Beverages - Topix.net

As it's done for nearly a quarter of a century, Anheuser-Busch will once again roll out splashy commercials during the Super Bowl to get people talking about Budweiser and, hopefully, drinking it.

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THAILAND: Political crisis could depress clothing exports

2014-01-31 16:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Thailand's garment industry has not yet felt an economic impact from the country's ongoing political unrest, but the unstable environment presents a serious challenge moving forward, a senior industry figure told just-style.

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Iraq: Its Great Lake Shriveled, Iran Confronts Crisis of Water Supply

2014-01-31 01:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: After driving for 15 minutes over the bottom of what was once Irans largest lake, a local environmental official stepped out of his truck, pushed his hands deep into his pockets and silently wandered into the great dry plain, as if searching for water he knew he would never find. Just an hour earlier, on a cold winter day here in western Iran, the official, Hamid Ranaghadr, had recalled how as recently as a decade ago, cruise ships filled with tourists plied the lakes waters in search of flocks...

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VIDEO: Currency crisis in 60 seconds

2014-01-29 12:49:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Sally Bundock explains how emerging countries' currencies have been affected by the promise of US tapering.

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