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xMax to Be Showcased as an Emergency Communications and Disaster Response Solution to California Public Safety Stakeholders

2014-12-23 11:33:20| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

xG Technology Announces Pilot Network Deployment with BayRICS in Three San Francisco Bay Area Municipalities SARASOTA, Fla. xG Technology, Inc. ("xG" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: XGTI, XGTIW), a developer of patented wireless communications and spectrum sharing technologies, has announced the deployment of a pilot...

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Japan: Fukushima and institutional invisibility of nuclear disaster

2014-12-20 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ecologist: The nuclear industry and its supporters have contrived a variety of narratives to justify and explain away nuclear catastrophes, writes John Downer. None of them actually hold water, yet they serve their purpose - to command political and media heights, and reassure public sentiment on 'safety'. But if it's so safe, why the low limits on nuclear liabilities? In a truly competitive marketplace, unfettered by subsidies, no one would have built a nuclear reactor in the past, no one would build one...

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Lima climate change talks avert a disaster

2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Business Standard: "It is so decided,' the Peruvian environment minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidalsaid as his gavel hit the table and the torturous 13 days of UN climate change negotiations ended with 196 countries adopting the document 'Lima Call to Climate Action' at around 1 am on Sunday morning. Several hours of closed door negotiations led by the hosts late on Saturday night brought about a compromise, rescuing the talks from the brink of disaster. However eventually, nothing much had been gained and nothing substantial...

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Himalayas tune in radio shows to reduce climate disaster risk

2014-12-13 08:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: "You know, humans do not understand that unless I am there to hold on to the soil, you will not be there either," the tree tells the mountain. "Yes, but ... villagers demand a road, the politician pushes for it and they cut parts of me and cut you and your folks too, and then there is a landslide!" replies the mountain. This unusual dialogue is heard by several thousand people tuned to Venval Vani, a community radio station based in Chamba in Uttarakhand, which was devastated by severe flooding...

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