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Ice melt endangers Arctic mammals
2015-04-06 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Three kinds of whale, six varieties of seal, the walrus and the polar bear all have these five things in common: they are marine mammals; they depend on the Arctic for their survival as species; they are vulnerable; and biologists know surprisingly little about them. And since the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, their future could become even more threatened as climate change increases habitat loss. The stress, so far, is on the word 'could', as the first challenge...
How Palm Oil Ravages Rainforests, Endangers Wildlife & Destroys Communities
2014-07-18 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Agriculture plays a massive role in todays global economy. Its easy to not realize that your salads fresh tomatoes are likely flown in from the Netherlands, its asparagus is picked by a Peruvian farmer and the dressing has palm oil harvested in Indonesia. Our complicity in an agricultural system that ships food products across the world via air, land and sea becomes a political decision, one that impacts the environment on a global scale. And palm oil, a popular ingredient in nearly 75 percent...
Tags: oil
communities
palm
wildlife
Critical vulnerability in WordPress newsletter plug-in endangers many blogs
2014-07-02 16:10:30| InfoWorld: Top News
A critical vulnerability found in a WordPress plug-in that has been downloaded over 1.7 million times allows potential attackers to take complete control of blogs that use it. The flaw is located in the MailPoet Newsletters plug-in, previously known as wysija-newsletters, and was discovered by researchers from Web security firm Sucuri.
Tags: newsletter
blogs
critical
wordpress
Serious flaw in GnuTLS library endangers SSL clients and systems
2014-06-03 14:04:32| InfoWorld: Top News
A serious vulnerability that could be exploited to crash TLS clients and potentially execute malicious code on underlying systems was patched in the popular GnuTLS cryptographic library. The memory corruption vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2014-3466, was fixed in GnuTLS 3.3.3, GnuTLS 3.2.15 and GnuTLS 3.1.25 released Friday. Since then, the GnuTLS developers also released GnuTLS 3.3.4 to fix a non-security-related hardware acceleration bug.
Tags: systems
library
clients
ssl
Ukraine Crisis Endangers Exxon's Black Sea Gas Drilling: Energy
2014-03-12 06:00:21| Energy - Topix.net
Crimea's hastily organized vote this weekend on whether to leave Ukraine to join Russia is threatening Black Sea oil and natural gas drilling prospects coveted by Exxon Mobil Corp. and Eni SpA.