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Some banks stop funding mountain top removal

2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Livingo on Earth: Coal companies have stripped the tops of mountains in Appalachia in search of the fuel. But as Amanda Starbuck tells host Steve Curwood, the Rainforest Action Network has helped convince some of the world's biggest banks to stop funding companies that practice destructive Mountain Top Removal. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. The coal industry is under fire in the US from several directions, ranging from calls to pull investments from fossil fuels to proposed federal...

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Wet winter boosts Mountain Warehouse

2014-05-30 16:26:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Last winter's wet weather boosted profits at outdoor clothing retailer Mountain Warehouse, with the firm selling more than one million waterproof jackets.

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As mountain snow fails and glaciers melt, Pakistan faces water threats

2014-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Farmers in the valleys of northern Pakistan fear for the survival of their summer crops after a short winter of low snowfall altered the flow patterns of mountain streams, potentially robbing the farmers of water they rely on to irrigate their fields. Experts at the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) and senior weather observers posted at stations in Pakistan's Upper Indus Basin (UIB) say last winter's snowfall in most of the valleys of the Gilgit-Balistan province was as much as 70 percent...

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