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Olive tree blight spreads to Corsica
2015-07-30 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A bacterial infection ravaging olive trees in the far south of Italy has spread to Corsica, where emergency measures are being implemented. Xylella fastidiosa, spread by insects, was found at Propriano in southern Corsica. The bacterium can also attack citrus trees and vineyards. France has destroyed plants around the infected bush found in Propriano. Xylella is one of the biggest disease threats to plants worldwide, the European Commission says. There is no effective treatment for infected...
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Flint, Mich. Sues to Shut Down Recycling Business Over Blight
2015-07-21 21:09:00| Waste Age
MLive.com The city of Flint is asking a judge to shut down a recycling facility that was the site of a large garbage fire that burned for more than 24 hours earlier this year. read more
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Five ways a Walnut Hills street went from blight to development ready
2014-11-15 12:58:13| Grocery - Topix.net
A rendering of the first phase of Trevarren Flats shows the return of glass store fronts and activity along East McMillan Street.
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Dam-building boom could be electricity boon, environmental blight
2014-10-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: A dam-building boom across the developing world will bring electricity to growing, power-hungry cities across Asia, Africa and Latin America. But it can also put the worlds climate and people at risk, according to a new study by researchers aiming to reduce the host of environmental problems that can come with dam construction. Researchers at Tübingen University in Germany have have compiled a database of the 3,700 different dam projects planned or underway worldwide. They predict that global hydropower...
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United Kingdom: Solar farms 'blight on landscape'
2014-10-19 03:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Environment Secretary Liz Truss has said large-scale solar farms are "a blight on the landscape" and confirmed plans to cut a taxpayer subsidy to farmers and landowners for the schemes. She told the Mail on Sunday the land could be better used for growing food. There is currently a 100-an-acre grant scheme in place, worth 2m a year. Ms Truss said: "I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land." She described the rows of solar...
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