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Rural buyers fuel India luxury car boom

2013-01-28 00:08:18| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The Indian farmer who is now the proud owner of a Mercedes-Benz

City heat might warm up distant rural areas, too, study says

2013-01-28 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: eat rising up from cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo might be remotely warming up winters far away in some rural parts of Alaska, Canada and Siberia, a surprising study theorizes. In an unusual twist, that same urban heat from buildings and cars might be slightly cooling the autumns in much of the western United States, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, according to the study published Sunday in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change. Meteorologists long have known that cities...

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India: Climate Change Adaptation in Rural India: A Green Infrastructure Approach

2013-01-24 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

World Resources Institute: Water is a scarce resource in India, especially in the state of Maharashtra, where most rainfall is limited to the monsoon season from June through September. The Government of India has long promoted a Participatory Watershed Development (PWD) approach to deal with this scarcity, focusing on technical and social interventions to restore barren landscapes, boost agricultural production, and improve livelihoods. The PWD approach is now facing a major challenge: climate change. Over the past dozen...

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Rural America's Missing Workers

2013-01-22 18:39:00| Beef

Every month we report the unemployment rates for rural and exurban counties and for the past several months, those rates have been going down. In November, the unemployment rates continued to edge down, especially in exurban counties. read more

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