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United Kingdom: Flood risk rises as more heavy rain is forecast

Independent: Severe flood alerts were issued last night with warnings that lives could be at risk as relentless rain continued […]

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Why hasn’t the ivory industry been wiped out?

Guardian: With the exception of Juan Carlos, king of Spain, who this spring chose to go on a luxury elephant-shooting […]

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Losing battle against climate change

Oman Daily Observer: THE Pacific island nation of Kiribati at first appears to be a South Sea paradise, with its […]

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‘How Rich Nations Undermine Climate Change Financing’

Guardian Nigeria: AS Climate Change negotiations begin on Monday in Doha, Qatar, a study has revealed how rich and industralised […]

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British bird species ‘face extinction’ if EU cuts £8bn agriculture subsidy

Guardian: Conservation groups are warning that the UK could lose several species of bird within a decade if, as expected, […]

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200 flood warnings as Britain braces itself for more heavy rain

Telegraph: Areas the country already left waterlogged by heavy rain earlier in the week were warned they faced the risk […]

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Hawaiian Volcano Insects And Spiders To Be Studied For Biodiversity

RedOrbit: Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley plan to collect insect and spider DNA from several Hawaiian volcanoes in […]

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Will storm-struck US deliver at climate talks?

Associated Press: During a year with a monster storm and scorching heat waves, Americans have experienced the kind of freakish […]

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Fulcrum Worldwide rated amongst the Top 20 Best IT employers in India for the second consecutive year by IDC Data Quest

(1888PressRelease) Fulcrum Worldwide has been rated amongst the Top 20 Best IT employers in India for the second consecutive year by […]

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Develops a Faster and Easier Way to Get Accelerated Separations of Gentamicin Sulfate Congeners

(1888PressRelease) Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces a direct-detection reversed-phase HPLC chromatographic assay method that accelerates the separation of congeners in gentamicin sulfate […]

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Survey Finds Holiday Shoppers Prefer In-Store Experience to Online Shopping This Season

(1888PressRelease) Consumers Prefer In-Store Experience To Interact Physically With Products Product Quality For Price Is A Positive Influence This Holiday.

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Spire Metering introduces EnduroFlow(R) Series EF10 wall-mount ultrasonic flowmeter

(1888PressRelease) Spire Metering Technology, formerly Shenitech, launched the EF10 high-performance wall-mount ultrasonic flowmeter. A member of the EnduroFlow® Series, the EF10 […]

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Report: Coal Plants Smothering Communities of Color

Daily Climate: Coal plants place a disproportionate burden on poor and largely minority communities, exposing residents to high levels of […]

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Ethiopia: Nile dam project a hydropower hope, but regional sore point

AlertNet: Ethiopia has begun construction of a 6,000 megawatt (MW) hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river, a move that […]

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United Kingdom: Ed Davey: my long battle for a ‘grand energy bargain’

Guardian: There can have been few negotiations so highly charged, so important to every household in the country as well […]

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Dunes that saved NY island from Sandy are now gone

Associated Press: New Yorkers who cherish Fire Island as an idyllic summertime getaway feared the worst when the 32-mile-long barrier […]

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Creating a Vital Long View for Gauging Environmental Change

New York Times: Last year, Michael SanClements, an ecologist affiliated with the Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research at the […]

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Temperatures are Up

Environmental News Network: Feel warmer? Maybe not everywhere but global temperatures were the fifth highest on record for October. Meanwhile […]

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Clean energy plan to add to bills

The government outlines plans to spend £7.6bn on cleaner energy by 2020, but delays a decision on long-term emissions targets.

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Clean energy plan to raise bills

The government outlines plans to spend £7.6bn on cleaner energy by 2020, to be paid for through household bills, but […]

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Consortium Pilot Finds RFID Improves Efficiency of Blood Supply Chain

(1888PressRelease) Transfusion Medicine RFID Consortium has submitted the results of a RFID pilot to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), […]

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World’s youngest species

BBC: When it comes to evolution, the world’s youngest species can teach us more than the oldest, says BBC Nature […]

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Microsoft to debut sewage-powered data centre

BusinessGreen: With the world’s leading IT companies rushing to develop renewable energy projects to power their giant data centres, Microsoft […]

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Carbon target not in Energy Bill

The government publishes details of its long-awaited Energy Bill, but the absence of a target for reducing carbon emissions by […]

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Review hails citizen scientists

A review of more than 230 “citizen science” projects says the involvement of volunteers offers “high value to research, policy […]

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United Kingdom: Energy bills to rise to pay for green power

Guardian: Energy firms will be allowed to triple the amount of money they add to customers’ bills to pay for […]

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SW Minn. effort to measure climate change effects on crops

Associated Press: Just south of Milroy is an acreage that has belonged to the Hicks family since 1885, but these […]

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Clean energy decision is delayed

The government publishes details of its long-awaited Energy Bill, but there are no targets set for reducing carbon emissions by […]

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Ban on bee-killing pesticides to be investigated

Independent: The Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is examining the possibility of banning the controversial nerve-agent pesticides increasingly implicated in the […]

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Floods and gales bring chaos and misery to UK

Guardian: Homes and businesses were flooded, tens of thousands of pounds of damage caused by high winds, and journeys by […]

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