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NHS tells betting firms to stop 'vicious gambling cycle'
2020-01-16 01:11:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Free bets other incentives should be banned to make gambling safer, a letter to companies says.
The vicious cycle that makes people afraid to talk about climate change
2016-06-12 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: If you want to understand why it is that on a planet wracked by climate change, people still dont talk much about climate change, then this may be the key: Theyre people. Or, more specifically, theyre evolved social mammals who are acutely attuned to how they are perceived by the other evolved social mammals around them -- and reasonably so, because those perceptions greatly influence their own lives. Such is the upshot of new research on why people self-silence when it comes to climate...
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Myanmar Seeks to Break Vicious Circle of Flood and Drought
2016-05-22 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: It has been two weeks now since the village of Htita, with its few bamboo houses hemmed in by parched, cracked earth and dried-out ponds, has enjoyed the novelty of its first ever water well. Young housewife Lei Lei Win walks to the noise of breaking soil to fill two yellow containers previously used for cooking oil. With the weight of the 20-litre "buckets' balanced on a pole on her shoulder, it now takes her only one minute to provide her family with the water that she will need to get washed,...
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How melting Arctic ice may have set off era vicious East Coast snow storms
2016-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Does shrinking ice in the Arctic lead to more crushing snow storms along the East Coast? Through a complex chain of events, its very possible says leading Arctic researcher and seasonal forecaster Judah Cohen. Since 1990, as sea ice has rapidly melted away in the Arctic, crippling snow storms have increasingly buried the Northeasts big cities. [Is global warming behind D.C.s new era of great snow storms?] In Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, at least five...
'A vicious cycle for commodities'
2016-01-13 12:28:01| Energy - Topix.net
The Bloomberg Commodity Index, a measure of returns for 22 raw materials, has tumbled more than 4 percent in 2016. That's the worst start to a year since the comparable data begins in 1992.
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