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Pollution threatens Hong Kong's competitiveness

2013-01-16 10:13:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Pollution threatens Hong Kong's competitiveness

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California cold snap threatens $2 billion citrus harvest

2013-01-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: An Arctic air mass has sent temperatures plunging across California, threatening the state's lucrative citrus harvest, its winter vegetables and its more cold-sensitive strawberry crop, weather and agricultural experts said on Friday. Temperatures throughout the state fell by as much as 20 degrees Fahrenheit (11 degrees Celsius) below normal on Thursday and Friday as snowfall and sub-freezing conditions forced a 17-hour closure of a key highway, Interstate 5, through the mountains north of Los...

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Iraq threatens to seize oil shipments, sue dealers

2013-01-11 15:52:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

BAGHDAD: Iraq has threatened to seize oil exports made without its consent and sue companies dealing in what it sees as contraband crude just days after the country's self-rule Kurdish region began unilaterally exporting oil.

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Drought Still Threatens Mississippi River

2013-01-10 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Discovery News: A new year has started, but last year's drought is still afflicting the United States. The latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows nearly 73 percent of the contiguous U.S. is still in drought. Rain has slaked the thirst of parts of the Northeast and Southeast, but dry conditions expanded in other regions. The southern Mississippi Valley recently received rainy relief as a belated Christmas present, but the northern stretches of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and their headwaters remained...

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