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The West's energy landscape, transformed
2013-11-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Coal is still king in eastern Wyoming in the Powder River Basin, here shown at Alpha Coal's Eagle Butte Mine outside of Gillette. But oil and gas are starting to make a play. Coal mines have torn into vast areas of the rolling hills, eating up grazing land and putting pressure on ranchers. But natural gas extraction both from conventional drilling and coal bed methane and oil drilling are fast expanding across the region. Forty percent of American coal comes from this region of Wyoming...
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Scientists call more controlled burns in West's forests
2013-10-03 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Some of the West's leading fire scientists are calling for the increased use of managed burns to reduce fuel levels in the region's forests, warning that climate change is leaving them more vulnerable to large, high-severity wildfires. In a paper published Friday in the journal Science, seven fire and forest ecologists say the rate of fuel reduction and restoration treatments is far below what is needed to help sustain forest landscapes in an era of rising temperatures and increased drought. ...
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AUDIO: Falling rupee: The West's fault?
2013-08-21 11:01:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Indian rupee has fallen nearly 16% against the US dollar since May - but is the decline due to uncertainty about the American policy of printing more money - or quantitative easing? Linda Yueh explains.
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