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Airbnb Faces Growing Pains as It Passes 100 Million Guests
2016-07-11 21:26:00| National Real Estate Investor
Max Chafkin and Eric Newcomer Charges of discrimination represent another challenge that the company is being forced to confront. read more
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Five Years After Independence South Sudan Faces Myriad Challenges
2016-07-06 02:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: South Sudan, the world's newest country faces myriad problems five years after achieving independence, aid agencies warned this week. South Sudan which achieved independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, is on the brink of economic collapse, development organisation Oxfam warned Tuesday. South Sudan's economy relies heavily on oil, and it is one of many developing countries to have suffered from low oil prices in recent years. "Plummeting oil price and oil production all but grinding to a...
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Mekong Delta faces worsening land subsidence
2016-07-03 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
English: The Mekong Delta region has been facing worsening land subsidence, which has been compounded by the prolonged drought in the region this year. A road subsides in Inter-provincial Road 965 in U Minh Thuong district, the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang. At the Mekong Delta Forum 2016 recently held in HCM City, economic experts said the region has been experiencing major impacts from climate change and human activity, including land subsidence from three to five centemetres each year. The...
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Reaping the wind off California's coast for electricity faces hurdles
2016-07-03 15:06:29| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As offshore wind farms gain momentum in the U.S., the industry predicts a clean-energy bonanza from the West Coast's steady and powerful breezes that may go a long way to help the state meet its ambitious clean energy mandates. But reaping the wind off California`s coast must first overcome not only economic and political challenges but also requires technology that is still being developed. So far, just one company, Trident Winds, has applied for a lease to construct an offshore facility in...
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Australia faces hung parliament after Malcolm Turnbull suffers stunning election setback
2016-07-03 04:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Malcolm Turnbull, the leader of Australia's ruling conservative coalition, faces an uncertain future after suffering a stunning setback in a general election on Saturday which could leave the country with a hung parliament. Despite pledging to provide stability, Mr Turnbull, a former Rhodes Scholar and investment banker, opted two months ago to hold on an early election - a political gamble which appears to have spectacularly backfired. With about 70 per cent of votes counted, Mr Turnbull's...
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