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Millions 'worse off' in new pension

2013-08-21 01:02:47| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Millions of people currently entitled to the state second pension will be worse off as a result of the government's pension changes, the TUC has claimed.

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California Wildfire Season Likely To Get Worse When Santa Ana Winds Arrive

2013-08-10 07:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: California truly is the Golden State this summer -- golden brown -- and that has fire officials worried heading into the peak of the wildfire season. It's still weeks before the fire-fanning Santa Ana winds usually arrive and already it's been a brutal fire season, with nearly twice as many acres burned statewide from a year ago, including 19,000 scorched this week in a blaze still raging in the mountains 90 miles east of Los Angeles. That fire, burning nearly 30 square miles, was almost half...

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California wildfires getting worse due to climate change

2013-08-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Southern California Public Radio: The Silver Fire near Banning is just the latest in a series of large wildfires burning throughout the state California, which has seen an increase in fire in recent years. In fact, in just the past 10 years, California has seen three of the largest fire years on record. Now a new report by the state points to cause: climate change. "The wildfires are getting worse, despite our ability to fight them better," said George Alexeeff, director of California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment,...

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