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Mountain Pakistan cuts forest loss, disaster risk with river power
Posted by Reuters: Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio on March 14th, 2016
Reuters: In her home in the remote Hunza valley, Gul Mehreen smiles as she places a tea kettle on the electric stove in her immaculate kitchen. As she makes tea for guests, the farmer jokes about "how amazingly enjoyable" cooking has become since a small-scale hydropower generator was installed nearby. Her visitors nod and burst into happy laughter. In this picturesque village, perched above the gushing turquoise waters of the Hunza river, and with a view of the 8,000-metre Rakaposhi mountain, in Pakistan's...
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Feb breaks global temp records ‘shocking’ amount
Posted by Guardian: Michael Slezak on March 14th, 2016
Guardian: Global temperatures in February smashed previous monthly records by an unprecedented amount, according to Nasa data, sparking warnings of a climate emergency.
The result was “a true shocker, and yet another reminder of the incessant long-term rise in global temperature resulting from human-produced greenhouse gases”, wrote Jeff Masters and Bob Henson in a blog on the Weather Underground, which analysed the data released on Saturday.
It confirms preliminary analysis from earlier in March, indicating...
Residents: Rubio Hasn’t “Done Shit” In “Florida’s Flint”
Posted by Daily Beast: None Given on March 14th, 2016
Daily Beast: Residents in coastal communities in Florida, say they have appealed to Rubio to help them with a growing ecological disaster in their community and have been largely ignored. If Sen. Marco Rubio loses the Florida primary next Tuesday, it won’t be because of the number of campaign offices he opened or the TV ads he didn’t buy. Instead, it likely will be because of the kind of senator Rubio’s Florida constituents believe he has been. Frustrated residents of several coastal Florida communities say...