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Verizon still telling copper customers to upgrade or lose service
2015-07-08 22:04:05| Extremetech
Verizon is once again in the dog house for threatening to yank a customer's service unless he converted to fiber -- even though there was nothing wrong with his existing copper lines.
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Africas DRC Could Lose Vast Forests
2015-07-06 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: If measures proposed by the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect its tropical forests are not enacted, it could result in a significant uptick in the nation's deforestation rate, according to a recent study. According to the paper, published by the journal PLOS ONE, forests blanket 1.1 million square kilometers (425,000 square miles) of the DRC and contain an estimated 22 billion metric tons of carbon. It's the second-largest forest carbon stock on the planet. The DRC has proposed measures...
California water rates rise as cities lose money in drought
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KPCC: Saving water doesn't always mean saving money in parched California. Millions of Californians expecting relief on their water bills for taking conservation measures instead are finding higher rates and drought surcharges. Water departments are increasing rates and adding fees because they're losing money as their customers conserve. They say they still have to pay for fixed costs including repairing pipelines, customer service and enforcing water restrictions -- and those costs aren't decreasing....
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Diabetes drug helps people lose weight: study
2015-07-02 09:00:52| Biotech - Topix.net
Liraglutide, an injectable diabetes drug that US regulators approved last year for weight loss, helped obese people lose an average of 18 pounds , a yearlong study said. Most patients were able to keep the weight off for the duration of the 56-week study on the drug marketed as Saxenda by Novo Nordisk, according to the findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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154,000 in Michigan lose electrical service to high wind
2015-06-29 04:15:37| Energy - Topix.net
Tens of thousands of Michigan homes and business remain without electrical service after heavy rains and high winds struck the Lower Peninsula. Detroit-based DET Energy Co.
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