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Lebanon: Drought and construction reveal extent of Baalbek river pollution
2014-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: "One of Lebanon's most significant tourist sites is now a source of repulsive odors,' Mohammad sighs. Lost in thought as he looks down at the Ras al-Ain River, which flows through downtown Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, he forgets to take the order of a customer at the King restaurant where he works. The water has long been polluted, Mohammad says. "Houses and restaurant owners have been dumping all their waste in the stream. ... This has been happening for years now.' "The river became a dumpster....
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Soda consumers may be drinking more fructose than labels reveal
2014-06-05 11:35:27| Beverages - Topix.net
Soda consumers may be getting a much higher dose of the harmful sugar fructose than they have been led to believe, according to a new study by the Childhood Obesity Research Center at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California , part of Keck Medicine of USC.
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CDP seeks reveal true scale carbon bubble risks
2014-06-04 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Nearly 800 investors have joined together to demand oil and gas companies reveal the devaluation risks their assets could face as a result of tough action on climate change to curb rising carbon emissions. For the first time this year non-profit organisation CDP, representing 767 investors who combined hold more than a third of the world's invested capital, will ask oil and gas companies to reveal their exposure to potentially unburnable fossil fuels. CDP's 2014 Climate Change Information Request,...
BANGLADESH: Alliance inspections reveal "dozens of deficiencies"
2014-05-28 14:40:25| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The first round of inspection reports released by the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety show that "dozens of deficiencies" have been identified in every garment factory. And the group now has just six weeks to release data on the remaining 600 factories supplying its member companies.
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Satellite Images Reveal Scope of Massive Balkans Flooding
2014-05-27 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The full, devastating scale of the downpour-driven flooding that tore across the Balkans in mid-May is evident in newly released images from a NASA satellite. This image, taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellie, shows a close-up of the town of Vidovice, Bosnia and Herzegovina, surrounded by and inundated with water from the Sava River. Torrential rains fell across parts of Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina beginning on May 13, with some spots recording...
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