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Australia: Northern quoll in the firing line of floating carbon price
2013-07-15 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The machinations of Europe's carbon permit market would initially appear to have very little to do with the northern quoll, the smallest but most aggressive member of the quoll family that has vanished from vast tracts of Queensland and the Northern Territory. But should the federal government bring forward a floating carbon price, linked to the cheaper European market, there are likely to be a number of knock-on impacts upon Australia's endangered species, farmland and national parks. The...
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PSNH chief steps down to focus on Northern Pass project
2013-07-13 10:27:46| Energy - Topix.net
HARTFORD, Conn. - Gary A. Long is stepping down as president of Public Service of New Hampshire, effective Aug. 1, to focus on the Northern Pass hydroelectric project as an executive of Northeast Utilities, chief developer of the project in cooperation with PSNH and Hydro-Quebec.
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Latest Northern Hub plans revealed
2013-07-13 00:00:00| RailwayPeople.com
Latest Northern Hub plans revealed
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Pollution Leads to Drop in Life Span in Northern China, Study Finds
2013-07-08 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Southern Chinese on average have lived at least five years longer than their northern counterparts in recent decades because of the destructive health effects of pollution from the widespread use of coal in the north, according to a study released Monday by a prominent American science journal. The study, which appears in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was conducted by an American, an Israeli and two Chinese scholars and was based on analyses of health and pollution data collected...
Northern China's air pollution reduces life expectancy by 5.5 years
2013-07-08 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution causes people in northern China to live an average of 5.5 years shorter than their southern counterparts, according to a study released on Monday which claims to show in unprecedented detail the link between air pollution and life expectancy. High levels of air pollution in northern China much of it caused by an over-reliance on burning coal for heat will cause 500 million people to lose an aggregate 2.5 billion years from their lives, the authors predict in the study, published...
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