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4ocean Pulls 5M Pounds of Trash from Ocean and Coastlines
2019-06-27 11:00:00| Waste Age
The brand plans to release tools that help people reduce their consumption of single-use plastic while creating goods from repurposed materials.
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Fate of worlds coastlines rests on melting Antarctic ice
2016-04-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Councilmembers of an island town in Georgia met in a police station near sandy beaches last week to mull a plan for coping with worsening floods. The meeting followed unprecedented king tide floods in the fall that inundated the island and nearby Savannah, and shut down the highway that connects them. "We've had more frequent flooding in areas that haven't flooded before,' said Jason Buelterman, mayor of the beach town on the eastern shore of Tybee Island, where the population of a few thousand...
Fate of Worlds Coastlines Rests on Melting Antarctic Ice
2016-04-21 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Councilmembers of an island town in Georgia met in a police station near sandy beaches last week to mull a plan for coping with worsening floods. The meeting followed unprecedented king tide floods in the fall that inundated the island and nearby Savannah, and shut down the highway that connects them. "We've had more frequent flooding in areas that haven't flooded before,' said Jason Buelterman, mayor of the beach town on the eastern shore of Tybee Island, where the population of a few thousand...
Massive Natural Gas Protest in D.C. Highlights How Fracking Is Invading Our Coastlines
2014-07-16 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alternet: Two dozen protestors were arrested Monday morning in Washington D.C. in a demonstration against proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals in the U.S., according to environmental groups reporting from the scene. Marylands Chesapeake Bay is the latest battleground in a campaign to halt the export of fracked gas and slow the damage done by increased drilling. The protesters were arrested at a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, after demanding...
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Climate change is flooding out American coastlines
2014-07-11 22:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Hurricane Arthur is no more than a holiday-dampening memory in the minds of many East Coast residents and visitors. But the 4.5-foot storm surge it produced along parts of North Carolina`s shoreline on July 4 was a reminder that such tempests don`t need to tear houses apart to cause damage. As seas rise, shoreline development continues, and shoreline ecosystems are destroyed, the hazards posed by storm surges from hurricanes are growing more severe along the Gulf Coast and East Coast. Two soggy...
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