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Young UN climate activists passionate, frustrated
2014-12-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The increasingly hostile climate predicted by scientists -- rising seas, crippling droughts, ever-stronger super storms -- is the looming nightmare that drives a contingent of young environmental activists that has been seeking to make a mark on U.N. climate talks. The largely 20-somethings agitating for urgent collective action to curb global warming account for a few hundred at best of the 12,500 people accredited to attend the Lima negotiations. They include activists, journalists for green...
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Anti-Nuke Activists Fight to Close Diablo Canyon
2014-12-11 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Californias Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors are surrounded by earthquake faults they were never designed to withstand. They are riddled with design flaws and cant meet basic fire safety standards. They dump huge quantities of hot water into the ocean in defiance of state water quality standards, killing billions of sea creatures. Their operating costs are soaring beyond renewables, an energy source transforming the California ecology and economy. They continue to pile up huge quantities of deadly...
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Mount Tabor Reservoirs: Nick Fish and Amanda Fritz respond to detailed questions from water activists
2014-12-09 17:58:39| PortlandOnline
Andrew Theen in The Oregonian, December 8, 2014
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Amazon Indians report more death threats after activists slain
2014-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indians on the Peru-Brazil border say they continue to receive death threats from loggers after the murder of four local chiefs in a remote forest region overrun by illegal felling. The September slaying of Ashaninka leader Edwin Chota and three of his companions followed rising deforestation rates in the Amazon last year, and has deepened concerns that loggers will target tribes as they become more active opponents. The tensions highlight the lawlessness of one of the world's most biodiverse...
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Philippines typhoon strikes as nations, activists discuss climate action in Peru
2014-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: While loved ones braced for the full impact of Typhoon Hagupit back home, Filipino activists in Lima urged climate negotiators Saturday to act with more urgency in drafting a global plan to limit such potentially life-threatening events. To us in the Philippines, we are not any more debating on whether or not the impacts of climate change are here, we have experienced it, Voltaire Alferez of the Aksyon Klima Pilipinas NGO grouping said on the sidelines of the talks. Year after year we are bombarded...
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