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VIDEO: The shrinking wage gap
2013-09-26 11:54:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
For years China has been the factory of the world - but could its days in that role be numbered? According to global accountancy giant PWC, the wage gap between emerging and advanced economies is closing fast.
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Al Gores Incredible Shrinking Climate Change Footprint
2013-09-06 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BuzzFeed: Last January, Al Gore took a boatload of scientists, donors, and celebrities to Antarctica to talk about climate change. Richard Branson, James Cameron, Ted Turner, Tom Brokaw, and Tommy Lee Jones joined more than 100 other paying guests -- Gore`s handpicked best and brightest -- on the National Geographic Explorer, an ice-class 367-foot cruise ship, to see "up close and personal" the effects of a warming planet, courtesy of the former vice president`s environmental nonprofit, the Climate Reality...
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Great Lakes shrinking: what's the business cost?
2013-09-04 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sea levels may be rising, but North America's Great Lakes are suffering from just the opposite problem: their water levels have been falling for the last decade and a half. Borne of glacial melt but now at the mercy of the skies for most of their nourishment the Great Lakes have been hit hard by shorter winters and warmer summers. Water temperatures and evaporation rates have increased, while water levels have remained below average for more than 14 years. "We have not seen anything like this...
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Shrinking role for nuclear power in US energy mix
2013-09-02 14:36:37| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: The pending closure of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station is the latest in a string of planned plant retirements that many industry analysts say forecast a shrinking role for nuclear in the nations energy mix. Vermont Yankee, which began operating in 1972, is the fifth reactor in the country to be scheduled for closure over the past year, dealing another blow to industry hopes of a nuclear renaissance. While four new reactors are scheduled to come online over the next several years, analysts...
Shrinking water supply under threat in U.S. farm breadbasket: report
2013-08-27 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A critical water source for U.S. farmers and ranchers is being depleted at a rapid rate and nearly 70 percent of it will disappear within the next 50 years if the current trend does not change, according to a report issued this week. Thirty percent of the groundwater from a critical portion of what is known as the High Plains Aquifer already has been pumped and another 39 percent will be depleted over the next five decades, according to the report by environmental science and engineering experts...
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