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UK facing 'digital skills crisis' warn MPs
2016-06-13 02:23:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Urgent action is needed to deal with the UK's digital skills crisis, warn MPs, or it risks damaging productivity and competitiveness.
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1,500 scientists speak out on sciences reproducibility crisis
2016-06-03 20:34:22| Extremetech
Nature polled bench scientists to find out what they thought about the much-discussed crisis of reproducibility in published scientific reports. What does it take to stop the sale of snake oil?
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Carmageddon: can electric jeepneys ease Manila's traffic crisis?
2016-06-03 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: During rush hour in Manila, it would be quicker to walk the 6.5km from Renee Karunungans family home to her office. Today we use public transport, and it takes almost two hours. We use a jeepney (a cross between a jeep and a van), a bus, then two more jeepneys and a motorised tricycle. The citys 2.2 million vehicles frequently grind to a standstill, and it is not unusual for commuters to be stuck for for three to four hours. When torrential rains flood the city, it can be much worse. As the...
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California's water crisis not on radar of presidential candidates
2016-05-29 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OC register: The 20th century dams and canals that gave birth to modern California -- to San Francisco, to Los Angeles, to the San Joaquin Valley farms that feed the nation -- are near the end of their engineered lives. The rivers and aquifers they tap are, simply, tapped out. The state's record drought, only dented by last winter's rains, comes amid a 16-year dry spell in the Colorado River basin, which provides 16 percent of California's water. The basin's giant reservoirs are dwindling and may never fill...
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Trump vows to solve California's water crisis
2016-05-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring, "There is no drought." California is, in fact, in midst of a drought. Last year capped the state's driest four-year period in its history, with record low rainfall and snow. Speaking at a rally in Fresno, Calif., Trump accused state officials of denying water to Central Valley farmers so they can send it out to sea "to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish."...
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