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World Cup bidding like 'Wild West'
2014-11-16 14:59:48| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Former Sports Minister Sir Hugh Robertson says he was told bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups was a "Wild West" process.
Deep Inside the Wild World of Chinas Fracking Boom
2014-09-18 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: ON A HAZY MORNING LAST SEPTEMBER, 144 American and Chinese government officials and high-ranking oil executives filed into a vaulted meeting room in a cloistered campus in south Xian, a city famous for its terra-cotta warriors and lethal smog. The Communist Party built this compound, called the Shaanxi Guesthouse, in 1958. It was part of the lead-up to Chairman Maos Great Leap Forward, in which, to surpass the industrial achievements of the West, the government built steelworks, coal mines, power...
The World Cup's Climate Wild Card
2014-06-16 21:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: When I read that the soccer balls used for World Cup games have been specially designed for the climate in Brazil, that got me wondering which climate? Brazil has many different climates. And are the players ready for a wide range of climates too? Technically its winter in the Southern Hemisphere, but that doesnt stop the heat or humidity in a place like Manaus, Brazil, at the heart of the Amazon rainforest. During Saturdays match between England and Italy it was a sweltering 90 degrees Fahrenheit....
Wild weather, warming world
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: TODAY, carbon dioxide causes about half the greenhouse effect. Each year, our skies receive 7 (seven) billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. This could double over the next century. Global warming was largely triggered by El Nino, caused by minute changes in ocean temperatures. Movement of warmer water into currents that encircle the Pacific disrupted trade winds and weather patterns in half the world. What El Nino has wrought, some scientists believe, is just a curtain...
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