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Texas welcomes sunshine after days floods that killed 25

2015-06-01 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Sunshine and drier weather were forecast for most of flood-weary Texas after days of heavy rain, giving swollen rivers a chance to recede and relief workers and residents time for assess the damage and start a massive clean-up, officials said on Sunday. Severe flooding has killed at least 25 people and prompted U.S. President Barack Obama to declare a disaster in the state, which has endured record rainfall in May. Flooding this week turned streets into rivers, ripped homes off foundations,...

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Singer Akon launches academy to help Africans harness the sunshine

2015-05-21 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Senegalese-American singer Akon, whose Akon Lighting Africa initiative aims to bring electricity to some of the 600 million Africans who lack it, announced on Thursday the launch of a new "Solar Academy" for the continent. The institution, scheduled to open this summer in Bamako, Mali's capital, will try to give African engineers and entrepreneurs the skills needed to develop solar power. European experts will help supply training equipment and programs. The academy will aim to teach people...

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Insider Buying: Nature's Sunshine Prod. major shareholder...

2015-05-16 09:00:03| Food - Topix.net

Nature's Sunshine Prod. major shareholder Wynnefield Partners Small Cap bought 14,934 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 13th.

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Work on the Sunshine Bridge is a little more than half done, highway officials said Friday

2015-05-02 08:11:38| Chemicals - Topix.net

A $25.1 million state highway project to refurbish and repaint the main span of the Sunshine Bridge is about 55 percent complete after more than 14 months of work and probably won't be finished until early 2016, highway officials said Friday. Michael Ricca, the state Department of Transportation and Development's project engineer for the work, added that all four lanes over the Mississippi River can't be reopened until then.

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