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Dispute Threatens ThyssenKrupp's Submarine Business
2014-03-24 06:47:22| Steel - Topix.net
A dispute between the Swedish armed forces and ThyssenKrupp AG threatens one of the German industrial giant's most-profitable operations and could shake up the growing global submarine business.
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World energy use threatens water
2014-03-23 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rising demand for energy, from biofuels to shale gas, is a threat to freshwater supplies, according to a United Nations report released Friday. The report urged energy companies to do more to limit their use of water in everything from cooling coal-fired power plants to irrigation for crops grown to produce biofuels. "Demand for energy and freshwater will increase significantly in the coming decades," U.N. agencies said in the World Water Development Report. "This increase will present big...
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Climate change threatens human's and wildlife's access to water, says new report
2014-03-23 01:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tico Times: Sea turtles in Costa Rica face threats from poachers when they come ashore to lay their eggs, but another threat comes from the water itself. Rising sea levels in the Caribbean are washing away valuable beaches where many of these endangered animals lay their eggs, noted a new report on climate change vulnerability in Costa Rica on Friday. Sea turtles aren`t the only ones facing future threats from climate change. A new report estimates that a lack of rainfall and rising sea levels from climate...
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Climate change threatens human's and wildlife's access to water, says new report
2014-03-21 23:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tico Times: Sea turtles in Costa Rica face threats from poachers when they come ashore to lay their eggs, but another threat comes from the water itself. Rising sea levels in the Caribbean are washing away valuable beaches where many of these endangered animals lay their eggs, noted a new report on climate change vulnerability in Costa Rica on Friday. Sea turtles arent the only ones facing future threats from climate change. A new report estimates that a lack of rainfall and rising sea levels from climate...
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Global Energy Thirst Threatens to Worsen Water Scarcity, UN Says
2014-03-21 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Energy production will increasingly strain water resources in the coming decades even as more than 1 billion of the planets 7 billion people already lack access to both, according to a United Nations report. There is an increasing potential for serious conflict between power generation, other water users and environmental considerations, said the UN World Water Development Report published today that focused on water and energy. Ninety percent of power generation is water-intensive, it said....
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