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Government Probes Begin Into Fatal South African Mall Collapse
2014-01-24 16:09:14| ENR.com: Headline News
Officials and builders are disputing whether the project had approved construction plans; the accident killed two workers.
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Germany's energy revolution on verge of collapse
2014-01-22 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Germany's energy revolution has gone sour, as have its efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Chancellor Angela Merkel's "Energiewende" policy aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent between 1990 and 2020, mostly by closing coal-fired power plants and boosting renewable energy. Yet in 2013, coal burning soared to its highest level for more than 20 years. Then, last week, economy and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel said he will slash wind and solar subsidies by a third, to cut rising...
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Guyana\'s sugar: Its industrial life cycle and collapse
2014-01-13 07:37:23| Sugar Industry News
As testimony to the present dire state of Guyana\'s sugar industry and its continued importance to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural life of the country, last week I began a third series of columns on this topic in the space of only three years. There I asserted the industry had reached a point of no return, or alternately a negative tipping-point. This week I shall address the question: what do these descriptors seek to convey?
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industrial
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Several Santa Monica Buildings in Danger of Collapse During Earthquake
2013-12-31 02:34:35| Grocery - Topix.net
Several buildings in Santa Monica sit on or near the Santa Monica fault and could collapse during an earthquake because the city did not require any seismic studies, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Greeks Burning More Wood and Garbage Amid Financial Collapse Leads to More Pollution, Health Risks
2013-12-19 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Air pollution is usually not the first consequence that comes to mind when thinking about an economic crisis, but new research out of economically downtrodden Greece has found that as the price of heating oil increases, Greek residents are switching to burning cheaper material such as wood and waste materials to warm their homes, which is having an effect on the environment and possibly public health. A team of researchers led by University of Southern California's Constantinos Sioutas found that...
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financial
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