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RBS 'clean-up' to push it into 2015 loss
2016-01-27 09:56:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
RBS announces a "clean-up" plan, set to hit profit by 2.5bn, which will push the bank into a loss for 2015.
MIT accelerates push to find technological solutions to curbing carbon emissions
2016-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: Some MIT professors are researching nuclear power plants that can float in the ocean. Others are testing atom-sized solar cells that can coat skyscraper windows or smartphone screens. And still others are looking at how to mix algae with sunlight to make a reliable, clean fuel. Policy makers, scientists, and many others are banking on technological breakthroughs in the wake of an agreement last month by 195 nations to cut carbon emissions -- a landmark effort to slow the rise of global temperatures....
Despite push, GM head gives Bains no specifics about future of Oshawa plant
2016-01-21 15:25:31| Automakers - Topix.net
Canada's economic development minister says the federal government has received no firm commitments from General Motors about the future of a key plant in the Greater Toronto area. Navdeep Bains spoke this morning with Mary Barra, CEO of the General Motors Company, just before she had a closed-door meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Major drugmakers push back in US price debate
2016-01-16 06:34:38| Biotech - Topix.net
With a backlash brewing over the price of medicines in the United States, drugmakers are pushing back with a new message: Most people don't pay retail. Pharmaceutical tablets and capsules in foil strips are arranged on a table in this picture illustration taken in Ljubljana September 18, 2013.
UK tree-planting push could offset farming footprint study
2016-01-12 13:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: British scientists have worked out how to turn agricultural land which currently produces 10% of the nations greenhouse gas emissions into a carbon sink that soaks up carbon dioxide. The answer is simple: take more land out of food production, restore natural habitats, and allow forests to grow again. If, in the next 35 years, the UK increased forest cover from 12% to 30%, and surrendered 700,000 hectares to revert to peat bog, that would be enough to meet government ambitions to reduce...
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