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After years of delays, Palestinians get high-speed mobile
2015-11-23 21:31:54| Wireless - Topix.net
In this Nov. 19, 2015 file photo, a technician works in the servers unit at the headquarters of the Palestinian cellular network Jawwal, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. After years of delays, Israel said Thursday that it would allow the Palestinians to have their own 3G network, bringing relief to one of the last places in the world without mobile broadband services.
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Climate deal urgent after weather-linked disasters kill 600,000 20 years: UN
2015-11-23 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Weather-related disasters have grown more frequent over the last 20 years, claiming more than 600,000 lives, the UN said Monday, issuing a further call for nations to strike a landmark deal on climate change. The report from the United Nations agency for disaster risk reduction (UNISDR) said floods, storms and other extreme weather events have killed 606,000 people since 1995, "with an additional 4.1 billion people injured, left homeless or in need of emergency assistance." The report noted...
Paris climate talks: Six years on, climate change is killing fish, flooding our fields
2015-11-22 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: They are humanitys hope for tomorrow, but each faces a future that looks increasing bleak and uncertain. Born in four different parts of the globe, these children came into the world in the weeks leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009. At the time, the Observer described the lives of these young people as their families struggled to cope with the impact of climate change. Now, before the Paris climate summit at the end of the month, we have returned to meet those...
Texas wind and solar power compete fossil fuels in just a few years
2015-11-20 11:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FuelFix: Wind and solar power competing evenly with their fossil fuel counterparts without federal subsidies could come in just a few years in Texas and other areas, while it may take another 15 years or more in other parts of the country, according to reports released this week. The paradox slowing renewable power growth somewhat is that the regions with the greatest natural resource potential for wind and solar, like the southwest and mid-continent, already have relatively cheap power prices that make...
Popular Science Names Power Over Wi-Fi' One Of The Year's Game-Changing Technologies
2015-11-20 01:55:39| rfglobalnet Home Page
University of Washington engineers have developed a novel technology that uses a Wi-Fi router — a source of ubiquitous but untapped energy in indoor environments — to power devices.
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