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China president 'given 62% pay rise'
2015-01-20 13:08:29| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Chinese President Xi Jinping and six other top officials have been given a 62% pay rise, according to state-run media reports.
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Car insurance costs 'to rise by 10%'
2015-01-20 01:21:50| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The cost of car insurance could rise by up to 10% in the coming year, and home insurance premiums are unlikely to go any lower, according to the AA.
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U.S. cities lag behind others in the world in meeting the challenge of sea-level rise
2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In December, residents in Marin, a county in the northern part of the San Francisco Bay Area nestled across from the Golden Gate Bridge, woke up to find that some of their roadways, docks and parking lots were underwater. Unlike in past years, when the king tides -- unusually high tides that occur when the sun and moon are closer to the Earth -- were accompanied by stormy weather, residents this year were faced with just some minor flooding. But more and more, parts of California are seeing...
Global Wheat Yield May Drop as Temperatures Rise
2015-01-17 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: As if they haven't heard enough bad news already, researchers are now letting farmers know that the world's wheat yields are excepted decline in the near future, with the world standing to lose six percent of its wheat crop for every degree Celsius that the annual global temperature increases. That's at least according to a study recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change, which details how expected wheal loss could total up to one fourth of the annual global wheat trade, which reached...
The rate of sea-level rise is far worse previously thought, study says
2015-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Researchers have come up with a new and improved way of measuring the rise in the sea level, and the news is not good: The seas have risen dramatically faster over the last two decades than anyone had known. For hundreds of years, the seas were measured by more or less the equivalent of plopping a yard stick into the ocean and seeing if the ocean went up or down. But now, that method looks to be outdated. According to a new study published on Wednesday in Nature, the new method involves an...
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