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Climate change may boost Middle East rainfall
The prospect of climate change sparking food and water shortages in the Middle East is less likely than previously thought, with new research by an Australian climate scientist suggesting that rainfall will be significantly higher in key parts of the region. Recent projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) raised fears that storm activity in the eastern Mediterranean would decline this century if global warming continues on present trends. In turn, that would have reduced rainfall by between 15 and 25 per cent over a large part of the so-called Fertile Crescent.
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Cleaner air for Arizona after US$400m coal-fired power plant settlement
As part of the fifteenth settlement secured by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Justice to control harmful air pollution from coal-fired power plants, the owner and operator of a plant in St. Johns, Ariz., has agreed to install pollution controls at an estimated cost of US$400 million to reduce harmful emissions and pay a US$950,000 civil penalty. This week`s settlement resolves alleged violations of the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act.
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