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Steam Rising from Crippled Fukushima Reactor Causes Concern
2013-07-18 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Officials from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) suspect that steam rising out of the top of a destroyed nuclear reactor at the beleaguered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear campus is the result of rainwater somehow making its way into the building, but workers onsite are prepared to douse the reactor with boric acid, should a sustained nuclear reaction begin to occur. At the beginning of the day Thursday, a TEPCO worker preparing for debris removal work encountered a "steam-like gas" wafting through...
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Marshes on the move: experts track rising sea levels along Sound
2013-07-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal News: The oak and hickory trees at the edge of a Long Island Sound salt marsh stand silent but could serve as future markers of climate change. Surrounded by thorns, poison ivy and some mosquitoes on a recent day, the trees positions were measured relative to the marsh grass and other wetland plants. Scientists expect to return in a decade with their tape measure and GPS unit and again calculate the distance between the woods and the marsh. The goal of their research is to see if the marshes are keeping...
United Kingdom: Green measures to blame for rising energy bills, says npower
2013-07-16 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Household energy bills will rise 240 a year by 2020, due largely to the mounting cost of government green policies, energy giant RWE npower has claimed. The "big six" power provider claimed energy company profits were not to blame for rising bills, and said consumers should know the true cost of government investment in greener forms of energy production and efficiency programmes, which it said will be the main driver behind a rise in bills from 1,247 today to 1,487 by the end of the decade....
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Tizen Rising: Can a $4M App Challenge Do the Trick?
2013-07-15 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
It's no secret that humans tend to be motivated by cash, and developers are no exception -- heck, even Microsoft knows that! Little wonder, then, that Linux developers took in the latest from the Tizen project with such interest. "Tizen is a brand new ecosystem, with a brand new store," the announcement read.
Are Rising Interest Rates Good Or Bad For mREITs? Duration Is The Key
2013-07-14 23:49:18| Jewelry - Topix.net
If you ask the question: are falling gold prices good or bad for jewelry companies like Tiffany & Co.
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