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Developing world faces a silent killer. Could a $1 solar light help?
2016-03-01 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Every day at around 6pm, 40 families living in a remote corner of Andhra Pradesh in southeast India a 6km walk from the nearest road would be swallowed by darkness. With no access to electricity, sunset was a non-negotiable curfew going outside was dangerous, people couldnt cook and children were unable to do their homework. This changed in April 2015 when Liter of Light, a project that transforms plastic bottles into simple solar lights, introduced solar-powered street lamps to the villages....
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Morocco climate summit faces funding drought due to EU spat
2016-03-01 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Millions of Euros to help Morocco fund this Novembers UN climate summit in Marrakech are being withheld due to a diplomatic spat between the hosts and the European Union. Ties between Brussels and Rabat were suspended last week after the European Court of Justice binned an EU-Morocco agriculture deal covering the contested Western Sahara. The region has been held by Morocco since 1975, but the court said a trade agreement covering the area was invalid due to continued protests against Rabats...
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Alton Towers owner faces prosecution
2016-02-25 12:57:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The owner of Alton Towers is to be prosecuted over the Smiler rollercoaster crash which left five people seriously injured last year.
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Nuclear water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis
2016-02-25 09:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fish market vendor Satoshi Nakano knows which fish caught in the radiation tainted sea off the Fukushima coast should be kept away from dinner tables. Yet five years after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl there is still no consensus on the true extent of the damage -- exacerbating consumer fears about what is safe to eat. Environmentalists are at odds with authorities, warning the huge amounts of radiation that seeped into coastal waters after a powerful tsunami caused a meltdown...
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Broker warns average dairy farmer will lose $140k this season, faces third year of weak prices
2016-02-16 05:21:53| Food - Topix.net
Financial broker OMF is warning the average New Zealand dairy farmer is likely to lose $140,760 this season, with next year looking just as grim. In its monthly New Zealand dairy report, OMF suggests there is a further risk that Fonterra Cooperative Group could lower payouts again, pointing to a potential milk price of $3.89 per kilogram of milk solids.
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