SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of shells at a South Korean border island, killing one South Korean marine and injuring 13 people, Seoul officials and media reports said.
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With end of current five-year plan looming, many regions are desperately pulling the plug to meet usage targets
Anping County, in Hebei Province, cut electricity to homes, factories and public buildings for 22 hours every three days in a radical move that has highlighted both the serious last-minute effort that China is making to achieve environmental goals and the immense long-term difficulty of shifting away from a dirty, wasteful model of economic growth.
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The quake might hit without warning as a fault line from Dover in the UK to the Rhine region of Germany could slip at any time, Roger Musson, of the British Geological Survey, said.
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The three major organisations that forecast long-term oil demand and supply – the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) – along with oil companies and consulting firms, believe that OPEC will reconcile predicted global demand and non-OPEC supply.
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THE next generation of homes is set to get greener for Singapore residents. The Housing Board (HDB) is looking into rolling out further initiatives to green new and existing homes, said HDB Building Research Institute managing director Lau Joo Ming on Tuesday.
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Crude prices fell in Asian trade today following news that repairs to a key pipeline carrying oil from Canada to the United States were almost complete, analysts said.
Enbridge had already submitted a restart plan to authorities, with an official saying that the line “should be up and running in some form or fashion by the end of the week,” media reports stated.
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ROME, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The number of people in the world suffering chronic hunger has declined for the first time in 15 years, due to improving economic conditions and lower food prices, the United Nations’ food agency said on Tuesday.
However the article continue to warn about possible sudden shortages of food due to environmental reason such as the sudden downpours, mudslides, floods, heat waves, droughts, wildfires and ruined crops that are closely matching the prediction of climate scientist.
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Mr. “Rishi” Sowa lives on an floating island. That he made. From empty plastic bottles and a few mangrove plants. In Mexico.
This guy is obviously been doing this for a very long time but he probably still need think of a way to build his island to withstand hurricane & other natural disasters.
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Oil prices jumped above $77 a barrel Monday, extending gains for a second trading day after a leak forced the closure of a Chicago-area oil pipeline and disrupted supplies to U.S. Midwest refineries.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for October delivery was up 72 cents to $77.17 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $2.20 to settle at $76.45 on Friday.
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