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Premium Bonds: Odds of winning worsens
2016-03-29 12:09:33| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The number of premium bond prizes is to be reduced, and savings rates on a number of products from National Savings and Investments (NS&I) will be cut.
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Severe coral bleaching worsens in pristine parts Great Barrier Reef
2016-03-14 06:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Damage to parts of the Great Barrier Reef has worsened, leading authorities to raise the alert to the second-highest level, indicating severe local coral bleaching. The bleaching is worst in the most pristine and remote parts of the reef north of Cairns, according to Terry Hughes, convenor of the National Coral Taskforce. Its the jewel in the crown of the Great Barrier Reef and its now getting a quite a serious impact from this bleaching event, he said. The northern reefs are bleaching quite...
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Malawi to import 50,000 tonnes of maize after drought worsens
2016-02-29 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Malawi will import 50,000 tonnes of the staple maize from Tanzania to avert hunger after a drought that affected 2.8 million people in the southern African nation, state officials said on Monday. Agriculture is Malawi's mainstay, accounting for a third of the economy and providing livelihoods for 80 percent of the population of about 15 million people. "With the 30,000 tonnes coming in from Zambia, we expect to add on another 50,000 tonnes from Tanzania that we have authorized (state-owned...
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Groundwater Crisis Worsens Food Insecurity
2016-02-23 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Sijabuliso Nleya has been kept busy in the past few weeks digging up sand. He is not a sand poacher like scores of people who local district councils across the country say are digging along dry river beds for sand used in the construction of houses. "The situation is terrible," said Nleya, who owns a plot in Douglasdale, a small farming community on the outskirts of Bulawayo. Together with other men, he has been filling up dry wells and boreholes, as groundwater increasingly becomes an unforeseen...
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Weatherford Cutting 6,000 More Jobs as Oil Downturn Worsens
2016-02-04 21:08:36| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Weatherford International Plc plans to lay off an additional 6,000 workers, about 15 percent of its workforce, over the first half of this year to cope with the worst crude market downturn in 30 years. The latest round of cuts brings to 20,000 the number of people who have been or will be let go by the world's fourth- largest oilfield services supplier as oil prices tumbled by more than two thirds.
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