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China Mobile net profit slips as it battles competition
2013-10-21 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
World's biggest mobile operator reports 1.9% decline in net profit for first nine months of 2013.
India battles dengue fever outbreak
2013-10-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: An outbreak of dengue fever since February has killed more than 100 people, inundated hospitals with patients and triggered school closures, reports Atish Patel. In India, many savour the moment when the skies turn grey and monsoon rains lash down to bring respite from the excruciating summer heat. This year, the country saw the heaviest rains in nearly two decades, particularly pleasing farmers who rely on the monsoon for their living. But the rains also bring challenges, including the...
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Fighting Climate Change Also Battles Disease
2013-09-22 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Chances are you wont die from carbon dioxide. But cutting down on the greenhouse gas pollution responsible for climate change could extend your life and make it better. That's because less reliance on things that produce a lot of CO2, like coal-fired power plants, also means lower levels of other kinds of pollution that shorten lives. That's according to new research in the journal Nature Climate Change. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) Researchers looked at how CO2 reductions...
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Battles Escalate Over Community Efforts to Ban Fracking
2013-08-23 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: As President Obama visits upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania this week to discuss his education agenda, a separate issue looms large in the background: fracking, a practice that has transformed Pennsylvania's economy and divided New York, where a moratorium is in place. Protesters on both sides of the issue are expected to greet the President. And while his trip highlights many unresolved issues related to America's new wealth of natural gas and oil, a growing number of communities...
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Red Lake encampment battles pipeline on tribal lands
2013-08-11 21:32:23| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Since 1949, Enbridge Energy has been transporting crude oil through its more than six pipelines from Alberta, Canada through northern Minnesotan reservations and across the US.
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