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Pacific climate change outlook bleak, says academic

2013-09-11 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Islands Business: A climate change academic says the prognosis for small island states in the long-term is not good, and is getting bleaker by the decade. Pacific leaders made a commitment at the Pacific Islands Forum to urgently cut green house gas emissions and become leaders in the fight to combat climate change. Many of the island nations promise to be using at least 50 percent renewable energy by 2020, and some want to join Tokelau and aim for 100 percent. The director of Victoria Universitys post-graduate...

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BlackBerry's bleak options: Will anyone really want to buy it?

2013-08-13 13:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News

As BlackBerry's board of directors formally begin exploring "strategic alternatives," business speak for fiuguring out how to dump the company on someone else, they'll find their options limited, according to two IT sector analysts. All the likely alternatives call for a much-diminished company, or one broken up into some software assets and a brand value that's declining every day.

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OECD: Bleak job outlook for eurozone

2013-07-16 13:39:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Young workers in the eurozone will continue to suffer from high unemployment rates, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns.

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Whole Foods Shows Customers the Bleak Future of Produce Without Bees

2013-06-18 09:55:58| Grocery - Topix.net

The decline in bee populations -or colony collapse disorder-has been all the buzz lately, which led Whole Foods Market to team up with the Xerces Society to show us what a world-or at least, produce section-without bees would look like.

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