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Russian telcos angered by threat of LTE spectrum seizure
2013-07-08 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Telcos, analysts warn Russia's new plan to create a single LTE infrastructure will damage investment climate, force down margins.
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Homes keep rising in West despite growing wildfire threat
2013-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The death of 19 firefighters in Arizona this week highlights what has become a fact of life in the West: Every summer, smoke fills the big skies yet people continue to build in the places that burn most. More people live in these areas, and many balk at controls on how and where to build. Theres a self-selection factor in there people who dont want the government to do things tend to move to places where the government isnt around to do things, said Don Elliott, a senior consultant at Clarion...
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The real threat to our future is peak water
2013-07-06 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: Peak oil has generated headlines in recent years, but the real threat to our future is peak water. There are substitutes for oil, but not for water. We can produce food without oil, but not without water. We drink on average four quarts (4.5 litres) of water per day, in one form or another, but the food we eat each day requires 2,000 quarts of water to produce, or 500 times as much. Getting enough water to drink is relatively easy, but finding enough to produce the ever-growing quantities of grain...
Global food supply under threat as water wells dry up, analyst warns
2013-07-06 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Wells are drying up and underwater tables falling so fast in the Middle East and parts of India, China and the US that food supplies are seriously threatened, one of the world's leading resource analysts has warned. In a major new essay Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, claims that 18 countries, together containing half the world's people, are now overpumping their underground water tables to the point known as "peak water" where they are not replenishing and...
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UK govt to share cyber threat info with defence firms, telcos
2013-07-05 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
BT, H-P among nine companies partnering with Ministry of Defence; MP likens emergence of cyber threats to invention of gunpowder.
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