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Smart Home and Smart Appliances are next CE sector battleground
2016-10-26 19:00:19| Digital TV News
Smart home automation, smart appliance ownership and smart home surveillance could be primed and ready for growth, though progress is being hindered by widespread confusion, according to research from Futuresource Consulting.
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Why Vietnam is the next beer battleground - Analysis
2016-08-30 15:15:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
When Heineken bought Carlsberg's Vung Tau brewery in southern Vietnam last month, it marked the latest in a string of investments by big brewers in the country.
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Dartmoor beauty spot is battleground for Britains threatened woodlands
2016-07-03 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is an idyllic spot. Sylvan slopes dip down to a babbling river fringed by alder and willow that winds through organic pasture where hens peck, sheep graze and bees hum. The ethos is sound to restore the woods to their ancient glory, to create a small, sustainable business producing timber and firewood, and to teach vanishing forestry skills to anyone keen to learn. They also try to have fun here at the Hillyfield woodland farm, near the village of Harbourneford in Devon, holding a Woodland...
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The Environment: Latin Americas Battleground for Human Rights
2016-06-22 02:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: 2015 was the deadliest year on record for the killings of environmental activists around the world, according to a new Global Witness report. The report, On Dangerous Ground, found that in 2015, 185 people were killed defending the environment across 16 countries, a 59 percent increase from 2014. "The environment is becoming a new battleground for human rights," Global Witness' Campaign Leader for Environmental and Land Defenders Billy Kyte told IPS. "Many of these activists are being treated...
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Troubled Delta System California Water Battleground
2015-06-24 14:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Fighting over water is a tradition in California, but nowhere are the lines of dispute more sharply drawn than here in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a 720,000-acre network of islands and canals that is the hub of the state's water system. Giant pumps pull in water flowing to the delta from the mountainous north of the state, where the majority of precipitation falls, and send it to farms, towns and cities in the Central Valley and Southern California, where the demand for water is greatest....
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