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Sterling admits 'terrible mistake'
2014-05-12 10:22:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team apologises for making widely-reported racist remarks, but says he was "baited" into the comments.
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India admits Delhi matches Beijing for air pollution threaten public health
2014-05-08 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: India's state air monitoring centre has admitted that pollution in Delhi is comparable to that of Beijing, but disputed a World Health Organisation (WHO) finding that the Indian capital had the dirtiest atmosphere in the world. A study of 1,600 cities across 91 countries released on Wednesday by the WHO showed Delhi had the world's highest annual average concentration of small airborne particles (known as PM2.5) of 153. These extremely fine particles of less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter...
UK: Anti-sugar group admits sugar taxes breach EU law
2014-05-07 14:18:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
A UK anti-sugar action group has admitted that legislation such as sugar taxes is unlikely to bypass European law and instead wants soft drinks makers to enact voluntary reductions.
United Kingdom: Cumbrian nuclear dump site was mistake, admits Environment Agency
2014-04-20 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain's nuclear dump is virtually certain to be eroded by rising sea levels and to contaminate the Cumbrian coast with large amounts of radioactive waste, according to an internal document released by the Environment Agency (EA). The document suggests that in retrospect it was a mistake to site the Drigg Low-Level Waste Repository (LLWR) on the Cumbrian coast because of its vulnerability to flooding. "It is doubtful whether the location of the LLWR site would be chosen for a new facility for...
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China admits widespread soil pollution
2014-04-18 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: One-fifth of Chinas agricultural land is polluted, particularly in the countrys southern rice baskets, according to a sobering government report previously classified as a state secret. Soil pollution, including hazardous levels of cadmium, nickel, arsenic, lead and mercury, is particularly pronounced in the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, and generally in the south where rice is grown, the report said. Previous exposés by Chinese media had found severe cadmium pollution in rice grown in the...
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