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VIDEO: Small businesses 'starving for cash'
2013-04-23 12:02:43| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Lloyd Blankfein, the boss of Goldman Sachs, says banks are "afraid" of investing in small businesses because of the prospect of taking losses.
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Starving polar bears
2013-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: Polar Bears have long been the poster species for the problem of climate change. But a new paper in Conservation Letters argues that supplemental feeding may be necessary to prevent polar bear populations from going extinct. Polar bear expert Andrew Derocher from the University of Alberta joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss how we can save the largest bear on the planet. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. The polar bear has become an icon of the melting arctic, the...
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Mass twitcher survey to record rare breeds starving in big freeze
2013-01-26 02:38:11| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The cold weather is about to disappear, but its remnants may still turn this weekends Big Garden Birdwatch, the RSPBs annual festival for amateur observers which is the biggest citizen science exercise in the world, into one of the most interesting ever, as the freeze has been forcing more uncommon birds into gardens in search of food. Waxwings, siskins, redpolls and fieldfares are among the less everyday species which may join house sparrows, starlings, blackbirds and blue tits in the gardens...
Starving the cities to feed the suburbs
2013-01-09 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: You`re probably aware that the federal government spends money on some things you like (national parks), and some things you may not care for (imprisoning non-violent drug offenders). But you probably don`t know that the feds actually spend more money on real estate than practically anything else other than defense. How so? As a new report illustrates, a variety of federal policies that go by other names are actually public investments in housing and other development. The report, "Federal involvement...
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