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QPR boss Mark Warburton 'cannot see how transfer window goes ahead' amid pandemic

QPR boss Mark Warburton says he cannot see how football's transfer window can go ahead this summer, in light of the coronavirus pandemic.




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Premier League clubs expect transfer window delay until at least late August

Premier League clubs expect the transfer window to be delayed until late August at the earliest as English football remains gripped by uncertainty.




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Jury hung in trial of Kulwinder Singh, who was accused of lighting his wife on fire

A Sydney jury is unable to reach a unanimous or majority verdict in the case of a Kulwinder Singh, who pleaded not guilty to setting his wife Parwinder Kaur on fire in 2013. She later died in hospital.




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Sudden stratospheric warming is the unusual climate variation affecting ozone, heat and wind

Sudden stratospheric warming it's great for the ozone layer at the South Pole, but not so great for heat and rain levels over the next few months.




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BOM issues dangerous wind warning as dust blankets drought-ravaged towns

Extreme winds are churning up dust from Broken Hill to Sydney, with some parts of the central west turning red and forcing residents to eat dinner under bedsheets so as not to spoil their food.




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Sufferers of asthma and respiratory disease stuck indoors on windy days as NSW drought intensifies

'My chest is very tight, it's hard to breathe': More children like Lincon are suffering from asthma as dust storms roll through NSW in the drought.




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Sydney news: Hot, windy weather prompts total fire ban, and new research into perils of smartphone use

MORNING BRIEFING: Temperatures are set to soar to over 30 degrees Celsius in some places as firefighters stare down a difficult 48 hours on the east coast. Plus a Russian national is wanted for a double stabbing in Sydney's south.



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The long, winding road to UFC 249 leads to a night that promises to be special

UFC 249, to take place Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla., without fans, will be perhaps the most unique pay-per-view event the promotion company has staged.




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Man in hospital after jumping from window of block of flats to escape fire

The fire started in the kitchen of a second floor flat on Wendon Road, in Baguley



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Seahorse and pipefish study by CCNY opens window to marine genetic diversity May 08, 2020

The direction of ocean currents can determine the direction of gene flow in rafting species, but this depends on species traits that allow for rafting propensity. This is according to a City College of New York study focusing on seahorse and pipefish species. And it could explain how high genetic diversity can contribute to extinction in small populations.




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UK Weather Forecast: Warm sunny spells for many today, Sunday colder and windier.

Warm sunny spells for many today, Sunday colder and windier.




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Bubble-wrapped windows and foam-taped doors: How to keep warm for less this winter

Fancy your home as an "hermetically sealed space ship" this winter, and keeping warm to boot? Here's how you can do both and not pump out more electricity, gas or wood smoke.



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Watch as the Queen marks VE Day with moving speech from Windsor Castle 

Exactly 75 years after her father King George VI's historic broadcast marking the end...




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Cleaner Air Courtesy of Coronavirus Provides Window into a Car-Free Future

With cars off the roads, scientists can study how smog and other types of pollution change  

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Settlement with Dominion Energy Reduces Harmful Pollution in Three States and Downwind Communities

The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Dominion Energy has agreed to pay a $3.4 million civil penalty and spend approximately $9.8 million on environmental mitigation projects to resolve Clean Air Act (CAA) violations.



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Owner of Window Installation Business Admits Tax Evasion in New Jersey

The owner of a window installation company located in Mt.Laurel, N.J. admitted today he converted to cash millions of dollars in the company’s gross receipts and used the money to pay his workers without withholding employment taxes announced.



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Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on the Implementation of the Supreme Court’s Decision in United States v. Windsor

Attorney General Eric Holder today issued the following statement regarding the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance to Federal agencies.



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Utility Company Sentenced in Wyoming for Killing Protected Birds at Wind Projects

Duke Energy Renewables Inc., a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corp., based in Charlotte, N.C., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Wyoming today to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act



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One Year After Supreme Court’s Historic Windsor Decision, Attorney General Holder Issues Report Outlining Obama Administration’s Work to Extend Federal Benefits to Same-sex Married Couples

Following the Supreme Court’s historic decision striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday issued a formal report on the yearlong effort by the Justice Department and other federal agencies to implement the decision smoothly across the entire government



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ANA to slash summer bonuses 50% as passenger traffic dwindles




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Large Wind-power Plant with Yokogawa Control System Comes Online in Japan

Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary, has installed a Yokogawa control system for one of Japan's largest wind-power plants, and that this facility, Wind Farm Tsugaru, has come online. This plant was built by Green Power Tsugaru GK, a limited liability company that belongs to Green Power Investment Corporation.




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RBI Recruitment 2020 Online Registration Window for 39 Consultant, Specialist, Analyst Posts to begin from 9 April

RBI Recruitment 2020 Notification is out at rbi.org.in. Check details here.




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Extinction watch: Amber eyes, dwindling fast

As of December 2017, fewer than 50 individuals are thought to be remaining in three subpopulations that are scattered over 140,000 square km in Iran’s central plateau. The cats have been nearly wiped out by excessive hunting, habitat degradation and scarcity of prey species.




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Why local governments should prepare for the fiscal effects of a dwindling coal industry

       




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The G-20, Syrian refugees, and the chill wind from the Paris tragedy


The tragic and deadly attacks in Paris, the day before leaders were set to arrive in Antalya, Turkey, for the G-20 summit, underlined the divisions that Syria, its fleeing population, and the terrorists of ISIS have created, as fear and short-term political calculations seem to shove aside policies aimed at sustainable solutions to the unprecedented refugee challenge.

It had started on a more hopeful note. Turkey, which chairs the G-20 this year, had placed the refugee issue on the agenda, hoping for a substantive global dialogue while looking for broad-based solutions to the crisis in Syria and the terrorism challenge. No doubt the 2 million refugees in Turkey played a big role, as President Erdogan and other officials tried to rally support for this unusual situation in a variety of G-20 and other venues.

Turkey was supported by another full member of the G-20, the EU, the only non-nation state member of the group, which shrugged off its complacency when hundreds of thousands turned up on its shores in 2015. European Council President Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president, echoed the Turkish President in calling for a global response: “Meeting in Turkey in the midst of a refugee crisis in Syria and elsewhere, the G-20 must rise to the challenge and lead a coordinated and innovative response… recognizing its global nature and economic consequences and promote greater international solidarity in protecting refugees.”

The G-20 is an imposing group, consisting of the world’s 20 largest economies, accounting for 85 percent of its GDP, 76 percent of its trade, and two-thirds of its population. Established in 1999 and growing in reach since the 2008 financial crisis, it should be a body that carries weight beyond the economic, with effective mechanisms to have impact on the global agenda. Yet, while Syria and the refugee crisis was the first time the G-20 stepped outside its usual narrower economic mandate, the agenda was quickly overtaken.     

The tragedy in Paris highlighted deep divisions over the refugees. Poland’s new government was the first to announce that it would stop participating in the EU resettlement plan whereby it would have accepted 5,000 refugees. Politicians from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia as well as those with a nativist message from the Nordic countries, France, Germany, and others saw an opening for tighter border controls and a much less welcoming approach to the more than 800,000 refugees that have already made their way into Europe, not to mention the many more on the way. Such views linking refugees to terrorism are not restricted to Europe but can be seen on the other side of the Atlantic, as U.S. presidential candidates and some 27 State Governors declared that Syrian refugees were not welcome.

At this early date, except for a single Syria passport “holder”—a document easily acquired these days, and found near one of the suicide bombing sites in Paris—all those who died or are being sought as suspects are citizens of either France or Belgium. Clearly, there could be some who get into Europe by using the refugees as a cover but with literally thousands of Europeans fighting in Syria, the real threat emanates from the small number of home-grown extremists in Europe who have easy access to the West and a cultural and linguistic familiarity that will elude newcomers for years. This was the same scenario one saw in the Madrid, London, Copenhagen, and the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris earlier this year. 

Fear is winning out over policy

The EU also appears in disarray on aiding the 4 million refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. This is significant since it is reduced funding and aid that is leading to the worsening of conditions in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, and driving many to Europe. Turkey too is reaching its limits and may potentially face a million or more new refugees if Aleppo falls. Yet funds pledged to these countries remain largely unfulfilled—of the 2.3 billion euros pledged by EU governments, only 486 million are firm government offers. The discussions between the EU and Turkey for additional aid to refugees of 3 billion euros also remain less-than-certain since such aid requires that EU countries agree to receiving and distributing asylum-seekers from Turkey. It also underlines the lack of funding for Jordan and Lebanon.    

In the end, the G-20 yielded little by way of concrete actions on refugees, though additional border controls, enhanced airport security, and intelligence sharing were promised. There was a call for broader burden sharing and greater funding of humanitarian efforts, as well as a search for political solutions. The G-20 also added little to the broad outlines of a potential settlement on Syria discussed in Vienna, Austria, on November 14, 2015, a day before the start of the G-20 summit.

Unfortunately, these are the very things that separate G-20 members among and within themselves. The growing danger is that fear and political opportunism rather than well-thought-out polices will guide the global response to the greatest human displacement tragedy since World War II. It is precisely this fearful and exclusive reaction that ISIS seeks. Indeed, that legacy may live long after ISIS is gone.                           

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The 2016 Rio Olympics: Will Brazil’s emergence get a second wind?

In these days when Brazil’s politics are in turmoil and its economy is in the doldrums, it is all too easy for Brazilians to dismiss their country’s decision to host the Summer 2016 Olympics as part and parcel of the same package of bad policy decisions that landed them in their present predicament. The steady […]

      
 
 




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Why local governments should prepare for the fiscal effects of a dwindling coal industry

       




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UK wind energy breaks output records. Again.

This is very good news. So much so that it might soon stop being news.




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Ecotricity launches wind- and solar-powered cell phone network

And profits will go to giving land back to nature.




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Budweiser achieves 100% wind energy, celebrates with a Super Bowl ad

I can't imagine anyone doing an ad like this for coal.




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World's first hybrid wind/current generator could generate double the power

A new kind of hybrid generator promises to double the power output for the same surface area, by also harvesting energy from ocean currents.




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Whatever happened to: wave power? Why is it so far behind wind and solar?

This promising source of clean energy is facing an uphill battle.




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Prefab off-grid cabin opens up with pulley-operated windows

This compact shelter is a place for a family to spend their summers in the middle of nature.




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Strandbeests Blowin' In The Wind

"Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. He makes skeletons




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Vinyl Windows: John was Right and I was Wrong. I Think.

We are very civilized here at TreeHugger and rarely criticize other writers when we disagree with their posts, and never fight in the comments. (unlike at Grist where you can see Dave Roberts and Jason Scorse go at it hammer and tongs over mercury in




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Big Mistake: Hiring "Greenpeace Co-Founder" Patrick Moore To Peddle Vinyl Windows

They look so cute on their polyurethane sofa, in front of the wall of vinyl windows and doors, in the stock shot from the Canadian vinyl industry. The Vinyl salesmen are also




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Oil giant quits tar sands, embraces offshore wind instead

This is a prime example of divest-invest in action, folks...




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Energy News Recap: Hurricanes Versus Wind Farms; Nuclear Power & Childhood Leukemia; More

Beyond the headline, a really great overview of how globalization may well be entirely reshaped by energy constraints, for the betterment of local economies in places where manufacturing has been outsourced for years.




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Solar windows switch between tinted and transparent

The technology makes for better energy generation and a better window.




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Iconic bay window becomes multifunctional 'spine' in this apartment renovation

An under-utilized element becomes a bench, a place to eat, nap and store things in this redesigned scheme.




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Wind Turbines May Blow Earth Out of Orbit, Coal Lobby Warns: The Onion (Video)

This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have




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NFL’s Eagles Score With Stadium Solar, Wind

A new football stadium in Philadelphia is in the running for the unofficial title of "Greenest Stadium in America."




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Smart Windows Fix Dumb Problem of Too Much Noise, Too Much Light: Sage Electrochromic Glass Changes With Flick Of Switch

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.




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1 Gigawatt Hydro-Wind Power Project Planned in Morocco Will Double Nation's Capacity

Morocco is making good on it's stated goals of increasing renewable energy development, leading towards 40% of electricity from renewables over the next decade.




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Generation gap: wind opens big lead over nuclear in China

In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent.




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Wind is cheaper than coal, oil and gas, says European Union study

If your price doesn't reflect the true cost of your product, then there's no such thing as a free market.




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8 wonderful ways to unwind

Celebrate this National Relaxation Day by doing a whole bunch of nothing too tasking.




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Norwegian Wind Power Could Become Europe's Battery

Norway's Oil and Energy Minister, Aaslaug Haga, seems to think that wind turbines is a good bet. The scandinavian country is the 5th biggest




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Large-scale floating offshore wind power is finally here

A new, 50MW floating offshore wind farm just got approved. Why does this matter?




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World's first floating wind farm now operating in Scotland

This technology might open up many new areas to offshore wind.