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Cuadrilla suspends work as UK anti-fracking protests intensify
2013-08-19 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Hundreds of protesters have participated in an anti-fracking protest march against Cuadrillas oil test drilling at Balcombe in West Sussex.
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Deadly Heat Waves Intensify as Summers Sizzle (Op-Ed)
2013-06-10 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo!News: No one ever should die from heat. But every year, about 650 Americans do -- a death toll greater than tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and lightning combined. And, in a deadly harbinger of what is worse to come, a new study shows that heat deaths are on the rise. An analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released this week reported that between June 30 and July 13 of last year -- the hottest year on record -- excessive heat killed 32 people in four states: Maryland, Ohio,...
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UK: Clothing price falls intensify in May
2013-06-05 13:23:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Falls in shop prices for clothing and footwear deepened in the UK in May, leading to deflation in overall shop prices for the first time in more than three-and-a-half years.
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G8 Ministers argue climate action must "intensify as a matter of urgency"
2013-04-12 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: G8 foreign ministers yesterday reiterated their commitment to driving an acceleration in efforts to tackle climate change, warning that climate impacts will have "dramatic consequences not only on the environment but also on economic prosperity". The communique issued at the close of the two-day meeting of ministers in London, which precedes the June G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, recognises that climate change is a "contributing factor to increased economic and security risks globally". It...
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A warming world will further intensify extreme precipitation events, research shows
2013-04-09 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: According to a newly-published NOAA-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, as the globe warms from rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, more moisture in a warmer atmosphere will make the most extreme precipitation events more intense. The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the North Carolina State University's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina (CICS-NC), NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the Desert Research Institute, University...
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