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No Nukes Groundswell Hits California, Solartopia Rising
2013-05-17 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In January, it seemed the restart of San Onofre Unit 2 would be a corporate cake walk. With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license exception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator fix had kept it shut for a year. But a funny thing has happened on the way to the restart: a no nukes groundswell has turned this routine rubber stamping into an epic battle the grassroots just might win. Indeed, if ever there was a time when...
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Child mental health disorders rising, cost society $247 billion annually
2013-05-17 17:18:22| Biotech - Topix.net
And the rate is increasing, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which produced the study, released Thursday.
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Fiji's villagers move uphill to escape global warming's rising seas
2013-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Fiji's picturesque Natewa Bay must be a hard place to leave, and for none more so than the villagers of Vunidogoloa, who are preparing to abandon their ancestral home in the face of the rising sea. But they have little choice: big waves now overtop a once-protective sea wall, their salt-polluted vegetation is dying. They are to move as a community a mile inland, and uphill, to a new site on the northern island of Vanua Levu. Devout Methodists, they have named Kenani, Fijian for Canaan the promised...
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The rising red tide with climate change
2013-05-16 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The tattoos on Ashley Cryan's ankles depict a chicken and a pig. Since the days of Captain Cook, sailors have donned the animals' likenesses to help them walk on water and guard against drowning. According to folklore, the animals-which survived shipwrecks more often than humans-had a special power that protected them from succumbing to the sea. Cryan, whose grandfather taught her to sail when she was 11, got her tattoos after surviving a shipwreck. She said they symbolize strength and survival,...
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Currys and PC World see rising sales
2013-05-16 08:53:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Dixons Retail, the owner of Currys and PC World, reports growth in sales in the last 12 months.
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