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Retailer Chico's FAS faces a fight for board seats
2016-06-07 16:50:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Activist investor Barington Capital Group has issued a second open letter to shareholders at US women's wear retailer Chico's FAS, urging them to "stop, look and listen" before voting for two directors to serve on the company's nine-person board.
Telefonica to fight air pollution with mobile data
2016-06-07 09:57:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Big data analytics company Teralytics has partnered with sustainability solutions specialist South Pole Group, Telefonica Germany and the city of Nuremberg to find a smart data system for air pollution. The partners will collect data in order to identify the major air pollution hotspots using mobile data, seen as an accurate, scalable and cost effective method. Teralytics will help telecom operators like Telefonica Germany transform massive amounts of mobile signal data into useful insights about traffic and crowd mobility patterns on a real-time, nationwide scale. Customer data will remain fully protected during the process.
Kenya: Stepping Up the Fight to End Cholera and Chikungunya Outbreaks in Mandera County
2016-06-05 09:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Mandera's double whammy, the concurrent outbreaks of cholera and chikungunya, is bringing to the fore the need for accelerated epidemic preparedness and prevention systems. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease that can kill within hours if left untreated. Chikungunya virus is most often spread to people by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. These are the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue, yellow fever and zika virus. Its symptoms include high fever, joint pain, rash and headache....
New weapons for Panama tribes in old fight save forests
2016-06-04 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Under the harsh light of a single bulb, with the jungle night dark behind him, Carlos Gomez held up a small, plastic globe and set it spinning. Thus began his first lesson in GPS, or global positioning system, to eight young Wounaan men in an open-air classroom in the Panamanian rain forest. The indigenous tribesmen had gathered in the village of Platanares in the Chiman district to learn to map illegal forest destruction on their customary land, among the most biodiverse rain forests on the planet....
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Panama's indigenous tribes launch drones to fight deforestation
2016-06-02 06:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indigenous people in Panama are using drones as a new weapon to monitor deforestation on their lands as thousands of hectares disappear every year in one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests, the United Nations said. More than half of Panama is covered with tropical rainforest, home to various indigenous groups who rely on the forests to survive. "The main objective of monitoring with drones is to identify changes in specific points of the forest cover," the U.N. Food and Agriculture...
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