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Cost of solar energy falls every time the sun rises

2016-04-22 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: Installing solar panels on your roof is not just for tree-hugging environmentalists. The increasing ease of the process and the financial returns have made going solar practically mainstream. Washingtonians are embracing solar power in a big way. In the District, residential solar installations have tripled since 2011, said Chelsea Barnes with EQ Research. By the end of 2020, the amount of installed solar capacity will be 300 percent higher than today, said Dan Whitten, vice president of...

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UK unemployment rises to 1.7m

2016-04-20 11:38:04| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

UK unemployment rose by 21,000 to 1.7 million between December and February, the Office for National Statistics says.

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Quake Death Toll Rises in Japan as Economic Impact Spreads

2016-04-18 05:40:44| Automakers - Topix.net

The death toll from earthquakes that struck southern Japan rose to 42 and the economic impact began to reverberate Monday as companies surveyed damage and the potential effects on production from supply-chain disruptions. The series of quakes that struck the island of Kyushu since Thursday evening are the nation's most devastating earthquakes since March 2011.

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Liquefied natural gas growth forecast as world works towards reducing global temperature rises

2016-04-16 02:20:56| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

At the COP21 climate talks in Paris last year, an informal agreement was made keep global temperatures rises less than two degrees. United States corporation Chevron has just started exporting gas from a Gorgon project on Barrow Island off the WA coast.

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