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Unplugging the Colorado River: Could the end be near for one of the Wests biggest dams?
2016-05-23 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: WEDGED between Arizona and Utah, less than 20 miles upriver from the Grand Canyon, a soaring concrete wall nearly the height of two football fields blocks the flow of the Colorado River. There, at Glen Canyon Dam, the river is turned back on itself, drowning more than 200 miles of plasma-red gorges and replacing the Colorados free-spirited rapids with an immense lake of flat, still water called Lake Powell, the nations second-largest reserve. When Glen Canyon Dam was built in the middle of the...
India inaugurates one world's biggest solar rooftop power plants
2016-05-23 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: The north Indian state of Punjab has inaugurated what it claims is the world's largest rooftop solar power plant. Spread over eight rooftops across 82 acres, it can produce up to 11.5 MW of electricity. SEE ALSO: Futuristic device is helping scientists break solar-efficiency record The Rs 1.35 billion project is expected to have significant environmental benefits, reducing 400,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide over the next 25 years. The Punjab government says that the project will generate enough...
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Bayer bid to create biggest seed firm
2016-05-23 08:30:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
German drugs and chemicals company Bayer makes a $62bn offer for Monsanto, in a takeover bid that would create the world's biggest agricultural supplier.
US retail sales rise is biggest in year
2016-05-13 17:07:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
US retail sales see their biggest rise for more than a year in April, largely because of a surge in car sales.
Vodacom leapfrogs MTN to become biggest operator in Africa
2016-05-12 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
MTN's share price has fallen 31% since Nigerian regulators imposed a record fine.
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