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India's choked capital starts 'pollution toll' for trucks
2015-11-01 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Delhi on Sunday introduced a toll for all trucks and commercial vehicles in an attempt to improve air quality in the world's most polluted capital ahead of Diwali celebrations. Trucks are banned from entering the Indian capital during the day, but every night after 8pm more than 50,000 pour in, according to the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). The independent centre says lorries account for nearly a third of the pollution in Delhi, adding to a toxic mix of industrial fumes...
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Indonesia's forest fires take toll on wildlife, big and small
2015-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A disoriented, pregnant orangutan, her treetop home in Indonesian Borneo reduced to charred wood, is rushed to a rehabilitation center by conservationists, who dodged walls of fire and toxic smoke. Veterinarians care for 16 abandoned baby orangutans already living at the center. The babies had developed respiratory infections because of haze from the fire, delaying the conservationists continuing attempts to teach them how to live on their own in the wild. Long-awaited heavy rains this week in...
Storms, tornadoes lash Texas; death toll rises to 6
2015-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The death toll rose to six in Texas as more bodies were recovered on Saturday after another band of strong storms and heavy rain spawned three tornadoes and dangerous flooding in the waterlogged state. It was the second day of turbulent weather in Texas, where at least four people died Friday in flood waters in central Texas. The storms and suspected tornadoes, which forecasters say were caused by an upper-level disturbance from Mexico, socked an already-sodden swath of Texas that was still drying...
Nestle Toll House 2015 Baking Season Trends
2015-10-21 18:43:00| Food Processing
Self-expression, disruptive ingredients and new takes on the traditional are some of Nestlé's Toll House concepts for this year's baking season.
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Guatemala landslide toll reaches 253 dead, 374 missing
2015-10-09 21:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: At least 253 bodies have been recovered after a massive landslide buried part of a town in Guatemala last week, with 374 people still unaccounted for, national disaster agency Conred said on Friday. After heavy rains, a hillside collapsed onto Santa Catarina Pinula on the southeastern edge of Guatemala City on Oct. 1, burying more than a hundred homes under tons of earth, rock and trees. Entire families were buried alive and hundreds of rescue workers have spent the past week trying to dig out...
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