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As Britain counts cost of extreme weather, the forecast is there's more to come
2014-01-05 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Areas of southern England and Wales already devastated by floods will be battered by another barrage of rain over the next 24 hours, the Met Office has warned. After two weeks of gales and mass flooding over the Christmas and New Year period, between 10mm and 15mm of rain, and up to 30mm on higher ground, is expected to hit southern England before moving north-eastwards. Heavy rain is also expected in parts of Northern Island and Scotland. Heavy rain yesterday afternoon and into the early evening...
Comment: Name the new China? There's no contest
2013-08-14 16:24:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Garment sourcing involves much more than finding the place with the lowest labour rates - but the industry continues to obsess about finding the next successors to China's crown as the ultimate manufacturing destination. As David Birnbaum explains, it's a complex problem, and fast answers almost always tend to be silly ones.
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Plants help slow warming - but there's a trade-off
2013-04-28 19:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The fragrant smell of the trees is one of the nicest things about taking a walk in the woods. But the organic compounds trees pump out don't just register well with our noses: they also help cool the climate by encouraging clouds to form. As plants respire, they emit chemicals called volatile organic compounds. In the atmosphere, these VOCs can interact with other chemicals to form particle "seeds" that clouds can grow around. Climate models predict that the clouds seeded by plant respiration...
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Take the Survey Yet? There's Still Time
2013-02-25 03:24:27| Real Estate - Topix.net
As the real estate market moves further into recovery mode, leading real estate firms from around the country are seizing the opportunity to document their business growth by completing RISMedia's 25th Annual Power Broker Survey.