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Student loans face timebomb - Labour
2014-03-23 12:29:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The coalition faces a "student loans timebomb" which could prove "catastrophic" for the Lib Dems, Labour warns.
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Indonesia sets a carbon time-bomb
2013-09-25 21:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: One of the worlds major terrestrial carbon pools is rapidly deteriorating as large parts of Indonesias peatlands are deforested and converted to oil palm and paper plantations. No longer a carbon sink, Indonesias peatlands are now a globally significant source of emissions. The June fires in Sumatra once again drew international attention to Indonesias forests. At the fires' peak, 140,000 hectares were burnt in just one week. Most fires were in peatland, much of it on land destined to become...
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Methane meltdown: The Arctic timebomb that could cost us $60trn
2013-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The sudden release from the melting Arctic of vast quantities of methane a greenhouse gas at least 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is an economic time-bomb that could explode at a cost of $60 trillion (40tr) to the global economy, a study has concluded. A scientific assessment of the costs associated with the release of Arctic methane into the atmosphere has found that the financial consequences to the world would almost equal the entire global economic output of one year. Scientists...
VIDEO: China's 'ticking time-bomb' threat
2013-06-25 03:21:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
China's shadow banks - unregulated and with little risk management - are a ticking time bomb, according to Rajiv Biswas of IHS Global Insight.
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