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Power blackouts hit 130 million people in Bangladesh
AFP, Published on 04/10/2022
» DHAKA - At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were left without power on Tuesday after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government's power utility company said.
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Behind the power crisis in petroleum centre Texas
AFP, Published on 18/02/2021
» NEW YORK: Some 2.7 million households in Texas were still without power as of Wednesday morning in the wake of extremely cold weather buffeting the region.
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Nuclear power as panacea for climate change? Experts divided
AFP, Published on 04/12/2015
» PARIS - As delegates at a Paris summit haggle over how to curb global warming, the role of nuclear energy in limiting climate-changing emissions is the subject of fierce debate between champions and critics of atomic power.
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Greenhouse gas hits 'prehistoric level'
AFP, Published on 11/05/2013
» The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, US monitors announced Friday, sparking new calls for action to scale back greenhouse gases.
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German power giant E.ON posts a massive 7.0-billion-euro loss
AFP, Published on 09/03/2016
» FRANKFURT - German power giant E.ON on Wednesday said it booked a massive 7.0-billion-euro ($7.7-billion) net loss in 2015 and warned that "the course ahead will be tougher and longer than anticipated."
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Australian schoolchildren cut class to renew climate protest
AFP, Published on 21/05/2021
» SYDNEY - Thousands of Australians marched in nationwide climate protests Friday, with many schoolchildren skipping classes to voice their anger at a massive new gas project and government foot-dragging on emissions targets.
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Carbon 'capture' tech is booming, and confusing
AFP, Published on 04/07/2023
» PARIs: Humanity's failure to draw down planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions — 41 billion tonnes in 2022 — has thrust once-marginal options for capping or reducing CO2 in the atmosphere to centre stage in climate policy and investment.
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Renewable energy sources grew at record pace in 2015: study
AFP, Published on 01/06/2016
» PARIS - Developing countries spent more on renewable power than rich ones for the first time last year, driving the fastest increase in sources of green energy on record, a study said Wednesday.
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Fukushima operator wins Qatar utility contract
AFP, Published on 25/05/2015
» TOKYO - The operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has jointly won a large power and water infrastructure contract in the desert state of Qatar, it said Monday.
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Australia's 'dirtiest' power station to close
AFP, Published on 03/11/2016
» SYDNEY - One of Australia's dirtiest power plants will be shuttered, its owner said Thursday, in a move hailed by environmentalists.
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