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China must manage the conflict between coal and water
2013-09-09 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China faces a serious conundrum. The country, already the world's largest coal consumer, wants to significantly increase its coal electricity generating capacity in order to expand its economy. But this introduces a critical resource concern: more than half of the proposed plants will depend on water resources that are under high or extremely high stress. In July 2012, China proposed building 363 new coal-fired power plants. These plants would have a combined generating capacity exceeding 557...
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Could water markets encourage collaboration and reduce conflict?
2013-09-06 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This week an estimated 3,000 water professionals convened in Stockholm for World Water Week. The theme of the conference inspired by the UN General Assembly, which declared 2013 International Year of Water Co-operation was "water co-operation and building partnerships". The choice of theme highlights a fundamental challenge for the water sector: its practitioners have limited control over its performance. The water sector only manages the underlying natural infrastructure in a particular...
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Conflict resolved over special-education student's service dog
2013-09-05 18:01:00| American School & University
Dispute arose in Athens (Ohio) district when first-grade student who requires a service dog was assigned to a teacher who is allergic to dogs. Schoolhouse Beat read more
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VIDEO: Syria conflict pushes up crude price
2013-08-29 09:22:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The growing possibility of military action by the US and its allies against the Assad regime, is continuing to push up crude prices.
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Warming Climate May Drive Human Conflict
2013-08-16 11:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Tempers flare as temperatures rise -- across the globe and throughout human history, researchers have found. The result is consistent with a growing body of research suggesting that climate change somehow incites human conflict. Small changes in temperature and rainfall substantially raise the risk of conflict of many types, from interpersonal spats -- such as aggressive horn-honking by automobile drivers -- to full-blown civil war and societal collapse, researchers report today in Science. They...
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