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Balkan floods threaten power plant
2014-05-20 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: ens of thousands of people were mobilised and equipped with sandbags and barricades to defend Belgrade and a power station in a nearby satellite town, Serbias largest, against the rising waters of the Sava river, which have killed 47 people so far. Tens of thousands more were evacuated to emergency shelters. Authorities believe the worst could be yet to come when on Wednesday morning the flood crest of the Sava joins the Danube. Following estimates that a quarter of the population of Bosnia and...
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Serbia floods threaten country's biggest power plant
2014-05-19 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Soldiers and energy workers have stacked thousands of sandbags overnight to protect Serbia's biggest power plant from flood waters expected to keep rising after the heaviest rains in the Balkans in more than a century killed dozens of people. On Monday, Bosnian state radio reported that the swollen Sava river, which has wreaked havoc in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, had again overwhelmed flood defences late on Sunday and flooded parts of the northern town of Orasje. Waters receded in other parts...
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Energy Study By Analysis Group Senior Advisor Finds That New EPA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Guidelines Will Not Threaten Electric System Reliability
2014-05-12 08:13:00| pollutiononline News Articles
New requirements soon to be proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from existing fossil-fuel power plants will not give rise to electric system reliability problems, according to research conducted by Analysis Group Senior Advisor Susan Tierney
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India admits Delhi matches Beijing for air pollution threaten public health
2014-05-08 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: India's state air monitoring centre has admitted that pollution in Delhi is comparable to that of Beijing, but disputed a World Health Organisation (WHO) finding that the Indian capital had the dirtiest atmosphere in the world. A study of 1,600 cities across 91 countries released on Wednesday by the WHO showed Delhi had the world's highest annual average concentration of small airborne particles (known as PM2.5) of 153. These extremely fine particles of less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter...
Rising CO2 levels threaten human nutrition, study says
2014-05-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: When carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches levels anticipated for the middle of this century, some staple crops that many of the worlds poorest people depend upon for sustenance will become less nutritious, new research suggests. In a study led by the Harvard University School of Public Health and published Wednesday in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists found that iron and zinc concentrations were substantially reduced in wheat, rice, soybean and pea crops when they were...
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