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Paper banknotes disappearing fast
2015-09-02 13:27:43| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Anyone lucky enough to have a 50 note in their wallet and purse will soon find it is the only banknote made of paper.
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Greenlands lakes fast disappearing
2015-01-22 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NVO: Rising temperatures have been at the centre of scientific study. Its impact could be easily felt on many hotspots across the world. Right now the Meltwater lakes in Greenland are bearing the burnt. Reports have surfaced that how they have been found to be fast draining off. And the culprit is none other than the rising temperatures in the region. How intense has been this can be understood from the fact that the lakes are disappearing within weeks. Two sub-glacial lakes have suffered the...
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America's frogs and toads disappearing fast, study warns
2013-05-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Frogs, toads and salamanders have been in trouble for decades, but a new U.S. government study shows just how quickly many amphibians are disappearing from ponds and creeks across the United States. The average rate of decline for U.S. amphibians is about 3.7 percent a year, which may sound small but compounds over time, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Wednesday in the peer-reviewed online journal PLOS One. Biologists recognized an international amphibian crisis in 1989,...
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Safe drinking water disappearing fast in Bangladesh
2013-05-07 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The availability of safe drinking water, particularly in Bangladesh's hard to reach areas, is expected to worsen as the country experiences the effects of climate change, experts say. According to a study by the World Bank's water and sanitation programme (pdf), about 28 million Bangladeshis, or just over 20% of the population, are living in harsh conditions in the "hard-to-reach areas" that make up a quarter of the country's landmass. The study found that char land that emerges from riverbeds...
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Bombay duck: iconic fish fast disappearing from city's coastal waters
2013-03-22 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bombay duck, or bombil as it is called locally, is one of Mumbai's polarising culinary experiences. This charmingly misnamed delicacy is actually a fish, whose pungent odour is part of that special love-it-or-hate it-Mumbai smell. It got its name in the days of the Raj, from being transported on an iconic train, the Bombay Daak, daak being the Hindi word for mail. The term was then bastardised to duck, which stuck. Now the fish is rapidly disappearing from the city's coastal waters, driven away...
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