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Dethroned and dismayed: ex-King Coal
2015-06-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: The coal industrys mood is smokestack-black. In China, which burns half the worlds coal, consumption in the first four months of 2015 was down by 8% year-on-year; imports by a stonking 38%. The market capitalisation of Americas four largest coal companies is $1.2 billion, down from $22 billion in 2010. America will shut 12.8GW of coal power-generating capacity in 2015, triple the 2014 figure. More will close next year. Natural gas and, increasingly, solar energy are cheaper and cleaner. The coal...
Brazil king of deforestation dethroned in drive to beat land clearers
2015-03-02 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For most of the past six years, Ezequiel Antônio Castanha had seemed a pillar of the community in the small Amazonian city of Novo Progresso. As the owner of a supermarket, hotel and car dealership, he provided more jobs than anyone else. Outside his municipality, few had heard of him. Neighbours described him as a pessoa normal (regular guy). Today, however, the thick-set, middle-aged man sits in jail with a notoriety across Brazil as a Tony Soprano-like character whose businesses were used...
The 25 worst passwords of 2013: 'password' gets dethroned
2014-01-21 14:39:13| InfoWorld: Top News
"123456" is finally getting some time in the spotlight as the world's worst password, after spending years in the shadow of "password."
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Biotech King Dethroned: Blech Gets 4 Year Sentence
2013-09-07 21:30:57| Biotech - Topix.net
On 18 September, the man formerly hailed as biotechnology's king, will start a four-year prison term.
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Lexus Dethroned by BMW Seeking Under-50s Buyers With IS
2013-04-08 00:34:31| Automakers - Topix.net
Toyota Motor Corp. 's Lexus, dethroned by BMW and Mercedes as the U.S. luxury sales leader, aims to remake itself with models more like performance cars and less like family cars, leading to a new IS sport sedan intended to lure entry-level drivers who would otherwise buy German.
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