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Nations are taking action on climate change
2013-01-15 16:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: It may be climate change's best-kept secret. While global talks founder, national governments are passing legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions - a Plan B for fighting climate change that was hatched at 2010 climate talks in Cancun. This optimistic message is at the centre of a new London School of Economics analysis, published by GLOBE International, a group of environment-minded parliamentarians. Of 33 major economies, 32 have now passed legislation to either combat climate change or...
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Beijing smog continues as Chinese state media urge more action
2013-01-14 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China's state media have called for environmental improvements in unusually frank discussions of the country's pollution problem, as thick smog continues to shroud Beijing and other cities. Stores sold out of masks and the capital implemented its new pollution emergency response plan for the first time after visibility plummeted at the weekend. Several construction sites were ordered to halt work, factories slowed production and authorities ordered a curb on the use of government cars. Schools...
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Chinese media urges action on air pollution
2013-01-14 10:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Chinese media said on Monday the government had to take urgent action to tackle air pollution, which has blanketed parts of the country at dangerous levels in recent days, and one newspaper called for a re-think of a "fixation" on economic growth. China's media are under tight Communist Party control and usually steer clear of controversy, but news organizations are more free to report on pollution, partly because it can't be hidden from the public. Air quality in Beijing was far above hazardous...
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How we lost 20 years on climate change action
2013-01-14 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conservation: Scientists have warned about the greenhouse effect for years. Now it is no longer a scientific nightmare; it has arrived. Lines from Al Gores famous movie? No. The Sydney Morning Herald published these words in mid-1988. The article detailed record-breaking heat and drought in North America and elsewhere, linking these weather effects with predictions for global warming and climate change (then called the greenhouse effect). A review of the Fairfax mainstream and business press of the...
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Sand in sugar: legal action against trader
2013-01-13 06:36:21| Sugar Industry News
The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) will take legal action against the trader who imported 800,000 kilos of unrefined sugar mixed with sand, seized at a warehouse in Sedawatte on January 9.
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