Factbox: Latest trial starts in $7 billion EU carbon fraud | Reuters

(Reuters) - A 5 billion euro tax fraud returned to haunt European Union's emissions trading scheme on Monday as six individuals faced tax evasion charges at a trial which starts in Frankfurt.

The case will haul the market's multiple scandals back into the spotlight but is unlikely to implicate investment banks following a similar case against small firms in Britain.

Arctic Warming Unlocking A Fabled Waterway : NPR

Carmack says the ice on this voyage looks the same as earlier trips he's made on the Northwest Passage, but it has a different feel.
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"It's always opened up for the last 15 years for about six weeks in the summer. Now it is expected that period will extend. And because it's going to extend, everything is going to change," MacLean says.
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But the land and the weather are inhospitable, and the waters will stay frozen for much of the year for decades to come. And that, geophysicist Boerner says, makes it extremely expensive to do any kind of work in the area. Given all that, he says, it's unlikely there will be a mad rush to the Arctic by oil and gas companies anytime soon.

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In KwaZulu-Natal, chilly weather seemed to keep striking workers at home.

“We planned a number of pickets but very few people attended because of the cold weather. The weather has disrupted our plans,” said Samwu provincial secretary Jaycee Ncanana

Science, sort of: Google experiment disproves "confirmation bias" - Inside Bay Area

We agreed on a date and time, did our searches and everyone sent me their links. I was eagerly anticipating confirmation that my conservative friends were getting only links to climate denial sites and my liberal friends were being sent to the Sierra Club. That one group would get links to breathless reports on crime in Oakland, while another, the latest Uptown restaurant reviews. Not so.