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California tree deaths part of global wave of forest mortality
2016-06-23 04:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit County Voice: California`s multiyear drought killed even more trees than previously thought, the U.S. Forest Service announced this week. Aerial and ground surveys show that 26 million trees across six counties in Southern California died, in addition to the 40 million trees that died statewide from 2010 to October 2015. Four years of drought, high temperatures and an outbreak of tree-killing bark beetles all contributed the historic levels of tree die-off, the agency said. The tree mortality in California...
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Mayors and EU Covenant of Mayors launch largest global coalition fighting climate change
2016-06-23 02:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Today, the worlds two primary city-led climate change and energy initiatives, the EU Covenant of Mayors and the Compact of Mayors, announced the formation of a new, first-of-its-kind global initiative of cities and local governments leading in the fight against climate change. This single initiative will create the largest global coalition of cities committed to climate leadership, building on the commitments of more than 7,100 cities from 119 countries and six continents, representing more than...
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Global VoLTE users to hit 1bn by 2020
2016-06-23 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
IHS predicts VoLTE service revenue will grow to $6.3 billion.
Subsea 7 to cut 1,200 of global workforce by early 2017
2016-06-23 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
UK-based offshore oil and gas firm Subsea 7 is planning cut its global workforce from 9,200 to 8,000 due to challenging market conditions.
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Nuclear new-build not fast enough to curb global warming: Report
2016-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Nuclear reactors are not being built rapidly enough around the world to meet targets on curbing global warming, a report by the World Nuclear Association, an industry body, said on Tuesday. The association, which represents the global nuclear industry, says 1,000 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity needs to be added by 2050 so nuclear can supply around 25 percent of global electricity. Last year, more nuclear reactors were under construction and came online than at any other time in the past...
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