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As Pollution Worsens in China, Solutions Succumb to Infighting
2013-03-21 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Chinas state leadership transition took place this month against an ominous backdrop. More than 13,000 dead pigs were found floating in a river that provides drinking water to Shanghai. A haze akin to volcanic fumes cloaked the capital, causing convulsive coughing and obscuring the portrait of Mao Zedong on the gate to the Forbidden City. So severe are Chinas environmental woes, especially the noxious air, that top government officials have been forced to openly acknowledge them. Fu Ying, the...
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GREECE: Gloom worsens for Coca-Cola Hellenic as FY profits plunge
2013-02-14 12:40:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Coca-Cola Hellenic will be glad to see the back of 2012 after posting profits in freefall for the year.
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Boulder NCAR scientist says climate change worsens Northeast storm
2013-02-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Camera: Climate change will likely add to the final snowfall totals from the monster winter storm lashing the Northeast by 5 to 10 percent, according to a leading expert on climate change at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished senior scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at NCAR, said Friday that snowfall totals from the storm are being influenced by both warmer air temperatures, leading to the atmosphere retaining more moisture, and a 1-degree increase in...
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China's coal conundrum as smog worsens
2013-01-31 04:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Locals in Datong call it the coal capital of China - and it is not hard to see why. Outside the city you can see enormous mining towers and buildings scarring the landscape. At one coal pit the bulldozers are hard at work. They push huge mounds of coal close to the waiting trucks. The air is filthy, blackened by the coal dust. This is a dirty, grimy business but in China it is crucial work. Coal has fuelled the country's economic boom, with consumption tripling in little over a decade. Currently,...
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Spanish economic decline worsens
2013-01-30 11:44:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Spain's economic downturn worsened in the last three months of 2012, official data indicates, while across the eurozone retail sales continued to fall.
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