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Argentina approves Clarin plan to adapt to new Media Law
2014-02-18 09:10:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Argentina's Federal Authority for Audiovisual Communication Services (AFSCA) has approved the adjustment plan presented by Clarin Group in order to comply with the Media Law, Telam reports. The AFSCA broad members unanimously accepted the plan. AFSCA said Clarin's plan to divide itself into six units was "perfect and indisputable". Clarin has 30 days to inform to whom it will transfer its licences.
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Charity food providers adapt, overlap to meet local demand
2014-02-10 00:42:42| Grocery - Topix.net
A decade ago, there was a stark difference between the canned goods and boxed mixes that Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan distributed and the milk, meats and other highly perishable foods that Forgotten Harvest rescued and turned over to help feed the hungry.
Germany's utilities struggle to adapt to renewable revolution
2014-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: aced with a plunge in profits, Germany's power utilities are having to bend to the will of the government and join the renewable energy revolution, while smartening up on the retail front with new customer-friendly energy saving products. "The situation in the energy sector is miserable, in Germany and in the whole of Europe," Peter Terium, chief executive of RWE (GER:RWE), Germany's second-largest utility by market value, said at an industry conference last month. "We're all caught in the worst...
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Extreme weather is a reality the insurance industry must adapt
2014-01-31 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The atmosphere is heating up and becoming more humid, we can say this with great certainty. This is likely to lead to an increase in extreme weather and more flooding. Recent major catastrophes are entirely consistent with this. Climate change might not cause such events but it can make them much worse. Since 1980, the cost of natural catastrophes has grown by $870bn in real terms and 2011 was the second costliest year on record for natural catastrophes including devastating floods in Thailand...
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Flooding experts say Britain will have to adapt to climate change and fast
2014-01-30 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "You are looking at retreat," says Prof Colin Thorne, a flooding expert at the University of Nottingham. "It is the only sensible policy it makes no sense to defend the indefensible." This assessment of how the UK will have to adapt to its increasing flood risk is stark, but is shared by virtually all those who work on the issue. Centuries of draining wetlands, reclaiming salt marshes and walling in rivers is being put into reverse by climate change, which is bringing fiercer storms, more intense...
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