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VIDEO: 'Hope' as PM unveils NI economic boost

2013-06-14 20:34:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Northern Ireland has been given a boost to its economy to attract overseas investment and help create jobs.

New hope for the climate with US/China agreement?

2013-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: One of the great stumbling blocks of climate talks in the last 15 years has been that America refuses to move to cut emissions of greenhouse gases until China does but at the weekend leaders of the worlds two great polluters reached agreement to phase out one of the most potent of them hydrofluorocarbons (HCFs). It was heralded as a great breakthrough, and if it works it will seriously improve the chances of the world avoiding dangerous climate change. But curiously the phasing out of HCFs...

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Researchers Hope To Shed Light On Dark Lightning Radiation

2013-06-14 09:13:52| rfglobalnet News Articles

Scientists now know that thunderstorms, working as powerful natural terrestrial particle accelerators, produce intense flashes of ionizing radiation called "dark lightning." To further their understanding of this phenomena, researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division are making precise observations of these flashes from space and running detailed simulations to understand the nature of dark lightning and to quantify the radiation exposure it may present to the crew and passengers of aircraft.

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Czechs hope wealth-destroying floods can lift growth

2013-06-13 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Floods that have caused billions of euros in damage across central Europe may actually provide an economic boost for the Czech Republic, a country struggling to shrug off its longest recession in more than two decades. Governments and insurers from Germany to Romania will have to pick up the costs of helping families and business recover from the floods, which have killed at least a dozen people and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes since the start of June. But central bank Governor...

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