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After 4 Years, Fukushima Nuclear Cleanup in Japan Remains Daunting, Vast
2015-03-13 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Neon pink and yellow banners flutter along the roadsides, their gentle flapping breaking an eerie stillness. The houses here are shut tight, the streets are nearly deserted, the fields that once sprouted rice, tomatoes and cucumbers are fallow. Shigeo Karimata dons a hard hat and a mask and prepares to get out of his car. "Some people say, 'Oh, it looks like a festival!`" says the avuncular 62-year-old Environment Ministry worker. "Then they see the writing on the flags: 'Decontamination Work...
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Vast Saharan dust plumes shown heading across Atlantic to the Amazon in images
2015-03-04 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Huge dust clouds swirling across the Atlantic from northern Africa to South America are pictured in stunning new images released by the US space agency Nasa that illustrate how Earths largest tropical rainforest relies on its biggest, hottest desert to flourish. Scientists have now for the first time calculated how much dust makes this transatlantic journey from the Sahara to the Amazon basin where it fertilises depleted soils with life-sustaining nutrients. Some 27.7 million tons of Saharan...
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Vast Majority Of Us Would Prefer A Thicker Smartphone If It Meant A Better Battery
2015-03-03 00:12:21| Semiconductors - Topix.net
An employee shows the curved screen of a new Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone device following its launch at a Samsung Electronics Co. news conference ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, March 1, 2015.
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Decommissioning Indonesias oil rigs: a vast but challenging market
2015-02-19 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Indonesias oil rig decommissioning market has huge potential with over 450 oil rigs, many already 20 years old, set to be dismantled in the near future. However, outdated contracts and a lack of legislative guidance and clarity means the market has
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Obama Will Move to Protect Vast Arctic Habitat in Alaska
2015-01-25 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama will ask Congress to increase environmental protections for millions of acres of pristine animal habitat in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, in a move that has already led to fierce opposition from the states Republican lawmakers. The White House announced Sunday that Mr. Obama would ask Congress to designate 12 million of the refuges 19 million acres as wilderness. The wilderness designation is the strongest level of federal protection afforded to public lands, and...
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