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About 80% of Iranian power plants use natural gas as fuel: Minister
Feb 10, 2021 01:54Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said Iran is currently supplying natural gas to four in every five of its power plants, on par with major economies in the world and in line with a government policy to reduce pollution and increase the exports of valuable liquid fuels.
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CO2 levels in 2021 to reach levels 50% higher than in 18th c.: UK Met Office
Jan 08, 2021 15:47Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will this year reach levels 50 percent higher than before the industrial revolution because of manmade emissions, Britain's Met Office predicted on Friday.
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South Korea to send delegates to Iran over to discuss tanker seizure
Jan 05, 2021 12:08Seoul says it will dispatch a delegation to Tehran for talks following the seizure of a South Korean-flagged tanker which Iranian naval forces say took place for repetitive violations of maritime environmental law and polluting Persian Gulf waters with chemicals.
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Fiji: Two dead as powerful cyclone tears across Pacific nation
Dec 18, 2020 12:34A powerful cyclone pounded Fiji, killing two people, including a three-month old baby, and leaving a trail of destruction across the Pacific Island nation, authorities said on Friday.
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Yemen grants UN access to abandoned fuel tanker near Hudaydah
Nov 26, 2020 16:04Yemen has given the green light for a UN mission to inspect and repair a long-abandoned fuel tanker stranded near the port city of Hudaydah.
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Wildfire destroys multiple Reno homes; hundreds threatened in US
Nov 19, 2020 05:34A fast-moving wildfire driven by strong winds destroyed several homes in a Reno neighborhood Tuesday and forced the evacuation of hundreds more on the edge of the Sierra Nevada foothills, one of several blazes burning near the Nevada-California border.
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Storm Eta devastated lives of 1.2 million-plus children: UNICEF
Nov 13, 2020 04:53Tropical Storm Eta, which left more than 200 dead and missing in Central America, has "devastated the lives" of more than 1.2 million children in the region, according to UNICEF.
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India uses artificial intelligence, geo testing to identify pollution hotspots
Nov 12, 2020 10:59Pollution levels in and around New Delhi have been hovering at alarmingly high levels for the past week and a UN body is helping the authorities identify pollution hotspots with artificial intelligence and geotesting, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) India head says.
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Landslide hits barracks in Vietnam, killing 14, leaving 8 missing
Oct 18, 2020 16:17A landslide early on Sunday killed at least 14 military personnel and left eight missing in central Vietnam, the government said, in what could be the country's largest military loss in peace time as it battles major flooding.
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Nine killed, 10 hospitalized in forest fires in eastern Ukraine
Oct 01, 2020 12:14Nine people have been killed and 10 hospitalized as a series of forest fires swept through part of the eastern Ukrainian region of Lugansk, the emergency service says.