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Exclusive: Altice eyes U.S. with TWC, Suddenlink buys - sources
2015-05-20 14:05:01| Telecom - Topix.net
French telecommunications group Altice SA has held talks to buy Time Warner Cable Inc, and is close to buying smaller peer Suddenlink, moving into the U.S cable market, according to people familiar with the matter. The negotiations with Suddenlink are more advanced and a transaction could be announced later this week, the people said.
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Eyes In The Sky: Styrofoam Drones Keep Watch On Rainforest Trees
2015-05-19 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A couple of toy planes are out to catch illegal loggers and miners in the Amazon. It's an awesome responsibility. Every year, illegal logging and mining in the Peruvian Amazon destroy tens of thousands of acres of rain forest. The deforestation in remote parts of the jungle is difficult to detect while it's going on. But now there's a new way to keep an eye out: with a pair of drones. Carlos Castaneda, the coordinator of the Amazon Basin Conservation Association's Los Amigos conservancy concession,...
Britain's Topps Tiles eyes commercial sector push
2015-05-19 18:04:26| Food - Topix.net
May 19 Britain's biggest tile specialist Topps Tiles may target the commercial market once it has reached its goal of taking a third of domestic sales across the country, it said on Tuesday. Helped by new openings and improved stores and ranges, Topps Tiles has grown its share of the domestic market for six straight years to 30.3 percent at the end of 2014 and is aiming to take a third in total, possibly this year.
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Peru eyes Amazon for one of worlds most powerful dams
2015-05-19 00:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Peru is proposing a huge hydroelectric dam in the Amazon that, if built, will be one of the most powerful on Earth, do significant harm to the environment, and flood the homes of thousands of people. The proposed mega-dam would be constructed at the Pongo de Manseriche, a spectacular gorge on the free flowing Maraón River, the main source of the Amazon River. The dams reservoir would flood as much as 5,470 square kilometers (2,111 square miles) and drown the town of Santa Maria de Nieva in...
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All eyes are on Seattle as it fights Shells dirty Arctic plans
2015-05-15 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Location, location, location the realtors mantra holds true, even in this virtual age. And right now, this weekend, the white-hot center of the environmental world is Seattle, Wash., because it sits on some of the most crucial real estate on planet earth. Seattle has long had a strong green tradition (why else would Grist make its home there?). It grew, perhaps, from the fierce attachment to the remarkable natural beauty of Puget Sound, of Mt. Rainier looming over the skyline. In any event, world-class...
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