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UK construction performance weakest for seven years in June
2016-07-04 11:42:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK's construction industry experienced its weakest performance for seven years last month, according to a closely watched survey.
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Indus Valley civilisation 2,500 years older than believed
2016-07-04 05:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pakistan Today: Indian researchers have used carbon dating techniques on animal remains and pottery fragments to conclude that the Indus Valley settlements could be 8,000 years old, which would make the Indus Valley settlements even older than the Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilisations. Our study pushes back the antiquity to as old as 8th millennium before present and will have major implications on the evolution of human settlements in Indian sub-continent, Anindya Sarkar, a professor at the department of...
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Japan: Fukushima and the oceans: What do we know, five years on?
2016-07-01 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A major international review of the state of the oceans 5 years after the Fukushima disaster shows that radiation levels are decreasing rapidly except in the harbour area close to the nuclear plant itself where ongoing releases remain a concern. At the same time, the review's lead author expresses concern at the lack of ongoing support to continue the radiation assessment, which he says is vital to understand how the risks are changing. These are the conclusions of a major 5 year review, with...
Air Pollution In China, India Shortens Life By Two Years, Study Finds
2016-07-01 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Air pollution reduces life expectancy in the worlds two most populous countries by around two years by 25 months in China and 23 months in India, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). China has undergone a process of rapid industrialization and urbanization over the past two and a half decades, with demand for energy increasing almost three and a half times since 1990. Almost all the increase was met by fossil fuels, with coal, the dirtiest form of fossil fuel, generating...
UK fashion market declines for first time in six years
2016-07-01 14:48:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The British fashion market has declined for the first time in six years, according to a new report, with spending on clothing, footwear and accessories falling by 0.1% year-on-year to June.
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