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Study finds improved cookstoves solve one emissions problem, but create another
2013-04-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Smoldering embers beneath pots and skillets around the world spew acrid plumes of greenhouse gases and aerosols, polluting lungs and warming the planet. More than half of the world's population cooks food using these types of rudimentary stoves, which are often just a pot balanced on three stones above a fire. The stoves have global consequences for the climate, since sunlight-absorbing soot is the second-largest climate driver behind carbon dioxide. Biomass-fueled cookstoves form 20 percent of...
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Climate Change: One More Problem for Pakistan
2013-03-30 14:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The Indus river, originating on the Tibetan Plateau and flowing for nearly 2,000 miles through the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir and finally down to the province of Sindh and out into the Arabian Sea, is key to life in Pakistan. The majority of Pakistan's 190 million people are involved in agriculture: the Indus, fed by glaciers high up in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram Himalaya mountain range, provides water for 90 percent of the country's crops. Meanwhile hydro-power facilities based on...
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pwSafe Cracks the Safe-Password Problem
2013-03-26 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Hardly a day goes by without a data breach making the news or a social media account being hacked. That kind of news can be unsettling to many of us and leave us wondering how we can better protect our online security. One way to address the problem is to beef up your first line of defense against hackers: the passwords to your online accounts.
VIDEO: Is London causing the UK a problem?
2013-03-26 00:43:33| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The BBC's economics editor, Stephanie Flanders, visits London, Birmingham and Manchester and discovers wide discrepancies between the capital's economy and the rest of the country.
Australia: Climate change politics is a values problem
2013-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Many climate sceptics do not trust environmentalists because they consider them "borderline communists" who want to curtail people's freedom, a leading US social scientist says. Speaking on Wednesday night, the University of Michigan's Andy Hoffman said US global warming sceptics had "a serious distrust of the political ideology behind its proponents". "The fear is that environmentalists are left-leaning, they are socialist, borderline communists, and they are using the government to try to...
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