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After 4 Years, Fukushima Nuclear Cleanup in Japan Remains Daunting, Vast
2015-03-13 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Neon pink and yellow banners flutter along the roadsides, their gentle flapping breaking an eerie stillness. The houses here are shut tight, the streets are nearly deserted, the fields that once sprouted rice, tomatoes and cucumbers are fallow. Shigeo Karimata dons a hard hat and a mask and prepares to get out of his car. "Some people say, 'Oh, it looks like a festival!`" says the avuncular 62-year-old Environment Ministry worker. "Then they see the writing on the flags: 'Decontamination Work...
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Studies show 2-degree climate goal is daunting but not impossible
2014-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Three recent reports, each a comprehensive look at the climate crisis and possible paths out of it, provide the latest evidence that the barriers to reducing greenhouse gas emissions are daunting, but not insurmountable. One report comes from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP); one from the World Bank; and one from a consortium that includes two United States' national laboratories. Together, they illustrate the concerted effort by various schools of climate analysis to promote a global...
Daunting days ahead as Mexico readies oil opening
2013-12-13 07:31:28| Energy - Topix.net
An opposition lawmaker reads the newspaper a day after dozens of leftist lawmakers take over the lower house trying to block discussion of the energy reform bill in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013.
Daunting days ahead as Mexico readies oil opening
2013-12-13 07:31:26| Chemicals - Topix.net
Mexico's sweeping away of seven decades of nationalist protections and letting foreign companies back into its oil fields is crucial to bringing the expertise and money needed to rejuvenate its sclerotic energy industry, supporters say.
Daunting days ahead as Mexico readies oil opening
2013-12-13 06:39:15| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Mexico's sweeping away of seven decades of nationalist protections and letting foreign companies back into its oil fields is crucial to bringing the expertise and money needed to rejuvenate its sclerotic energy industry, supporters say.