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Global finance officials endorse World Bank target to end poverty
ReutersBy Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - Global finance officials endorsed a new World Bank goal to end extreme global poverty by 2030 and emphasized that its focus should be on ensuring that the poorest benefit from strong growth and...Tags: China, Labor Markets, International Organizations, Poverty, International Development Association
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Things to do this weekend. More events added!
Saturday, April 20 MIAMI-DADE COUNTY Bass Buddies: Painting Like the Masters. Designed for children 4-6, art class allows participants to explore their creative side with painting, drawing or sculpting and may include a science experiment, museum...
Tags: Miami Dade College, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lakes and Ponds, Artists, Environmental Pollution
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Celebrate Earth Day at Ordway Prairie Preserve
With the continual disappearance of grasslands and wetlands and huge changes occurring rapidly in the landscape and environment, now is the time to stop and really think about and pay homage to our planet. And Earth Day is the perfect time to do so....Tags: Wildlife, China, Photography, Arts, Nature Conservancy
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French wine could get pricey, climate change study says
That bottle of Bordeaux you put aside may become even rarer in the next few decades as climate change could reduce wine grape production in traditional parts of the world and move it elsewhere, researchers say. Danish Cabernet, anyone? Wine grape...
Tags: Wines, Science and Technology, Viniculture, Conservation, Grapes
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Other Voices: South Dakota should take a look at Nebraska climate change legislation
Several lawmakers in the Nebraska Legislature want to do something that is rather intriguing and, we would say, commendable. They want to understand climate change. Let’s be clear on this point. That desire does not reflect a political stand,...Tags: Conservation, Nebraska Legislature, Global Change, Environmental Issues
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Climate change will make flights bumpier, study says
In the future, white-knuckle fliers may be able to blame those brutally bumpy flights over the Atlantic Ocean on greenhouse gases. Turbulence will be stronger and occur more often if carbon dioxide emissions double by 2050, heating up the atmosphere,...Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Air and Space Accidents, Science and Technology, Air Transportation Industry, Federal Aviation Administration
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Neb. measure addresses climate issue
Several lawmakers in the Nebraska Legislature want to do something that is rather intriguing and, we would say, commendable. They want to understand climate change. Let's be clear on this point. That desire does not reflect a political stand, which...Tags: Conservation, Nebraska Legislature, Global Change, Environmental Issues
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UAA Senses Time is Right to Launch Startup Companies
Channel 2 NewsThe University of Alaska Anchorage is getting into the business of creating businesses -- and it’s announced its first startup company, a venture created to sell new sensor platforms. In the past, universities have had the reputation of being ivory...Tags: New Products, Alternative Energy, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Business
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Local students win C-SPAN documentary contest
They’re still in school but they’re already making their TV debut – on C-SPAN. Eight South Florida students won C-SPAN’s StudentCam competition that asks middle and high school students to produce five to eight minute...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Students, Key Biscayne, Teaching and Learning, Falcon Cove Middle School
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States, cities, environmental groups demand EPA emission rules
WASHINGTON -- A dozen states and cities and three major environmental groups have notified the Environmental Protection Agency that they plan to sue the regulator unless it issues final rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. On...
Tags: Standards, Science and Technology, Environmental Cleanup, Conservation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Iraqi immigrant wins Goldman Environmental Prize
During his 30-year reign in Iraq, Saddam Hussein repeatedly plunged the country into war, even transforming an ancestral marshland some say is the "historical" Garden of Eden into a battleground. To punish political enemies, Hussein built canals with...
Tags: Wetlands, Immigration, Environmental Cleanup, Science and Technology, Conservation
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Former O.C. resident wins $150,000 prize for restoring Iraq marshland
Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi immigrant and former Fullerton resident who returned to Iraq in 2003 to lead a marshlands restoration project, has received the Goldman Environmental Prize, a $150,000 prize awarded to six environmentalists annually. Alwash led...
Tags: Wetlands, Science and Technology, Environmental Cleanup, Conservation, Everglades
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