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The fracking divide: Mexicos oil frontier beckons U.S. drillers in wake of new law
2014-04-19 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The geological marvel known to Texas oilmen as the Eagle Ford Shale Play is buried deep underground, but at night you can see its outline from space in a twinkling arc that sweeps south of San Antonio toward the Rio Grande. The light radiates from thousands of surface-level gas flares and drilling rigs. It is the glow of one of the most extravagant oil bonanzas in American history, the result of the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. After the passage of a landmark...
North-South divide in mortgage risk
2014-04-08 14:16:18| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A quarter of all the outstanding mortgage debt in Britain is owed on London properties, but an academic says these householders are less vulnerable to interest rate rises.
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Fence to divide railroad from Palouse Falls park
2014-03-18 07:53:12| Railroads - Topix.net
The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission approved a Grade Crossing Protective Fund grant of $23,000 to pay for the work to protect visitors at Palouse Falls.
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App Converter Bridges Tizen-Android Divide
2014-02-28 03:55:21| TechNewsWorld
The first Tizen phones may still be on the horizon, but at least one software provider is already planning ahead. Infraware Technology debuted software that can port Android apps to the Tizen mobile OS without additional development or customization. Both Android and Tizen are based on Linux, of course, but that doesn't mean their native apps are compatible.
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Carbon footprint maps reveal urban-suburban divide
2014-01-14 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Where you live in a metropolis -- the city or the suburbs -- can make a huge difference in how much you are contributing to climate change, according to a new study. People in the densely populated cores of big cities are responsible for less greenhouse gas emissions, but the more carbon-intensive lifestyle of their far-flung suburbs cancels out any of the benefits, researchers at UC Berkeley found. The analysis used household income, vehicle ownership, home size, population density, weather...
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