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Keystone XL Seen Harming Quality Night Skies Near Parks

2013-08-16 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Building the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to more manmade light and noise in sparsely populated regions, which may harm natural resources, wildlife and visitors to national parks, the U.S. Interior Department said. In comments submitted to the State Department as part of an environmental review, Interior warned that developer TransCanada Corp. (TRP) isnt adequately dealing with risks to cultural soundscapes and high quality night skies from disturbances during construction and from pumping...

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Is the air in underground subways harming our health?

2013-07-25 01:00:00| Railway Technology

New research from Southampton University has shown that ultrafine dust particles which are unregulated in the UK are metal rich and more likely to cause health problems, such as cancer and emphysema, in workers and passengers than the larger, reg

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VIDEO: Are 'tied pubs' harming industry?

2013-06-13 08:56:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Pubs which are tied to a particular brewery or pub company are struggling to make a profit, some publicans claim.

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AUDIO: Is ageing population 'harming economy'?

2013-04-08 11:24:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The US was the latest nation to blame demographic changes for sluggish economic numbers last week, and China has also seen its working age population fall this year.

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