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Record number of environmental activists murdered in 2015
2016-06-20 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Change News: Dionel Campos was publicly executed on 1 September 2015. Leader of the Manobo tribe in the Philippines, he had opposed large scale mining and logging on his people`s traditional lands. After the deadly attack on him and two others, Bello Sinzo and Emerito Samarca, 3,000 of his community fled their homes. We get threatened, vilified and killed for standing up to the mining companies on our land and the paramilitaries that protect them, said Michelle Campos, his daughter. We know the...
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As Americas Largest Reservoir Hits Record Low, a Dam Debate Returns
2016-06-18 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NY Mag: Lake Mead, Americas largest reservoir, reached a record low water level this week, breaking the previous record set a year ago. As of Friday night, the depth of the lake, which was formed after the Depression-era Hoover Dam was built on the Colorado River at the Nevada-Arizona border, had dropped to 1,074.33 feet, and the Desert Sun reports that officials expect the level to hit 1,071 feet by the end of June. The lakes continuing decline amid 16 years of drought may automatically trigger significant...
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It's official: May is now Earth's hottest on record
2016-06-18 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Alert: Our climate is changing, and quickly: NASA says May 2016 was the hottest month on the planet since we started keeping records, with the Arctic in particular seeing temperatures way above what might normally be expected. "Abnormal is the new normal," said David Carlson from the World Climate Research Programme, which helped collate the data. Alaska had its warmest spring on record by a "wide margin", the statistics show, while temperatures in Finland during May were 3-5°C higher than they usually...
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Barack Obama Touts Environmental Record On Family Outing To National Parks
2016-06-18 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: President Barack Obama and the first family celebrated America's cherished natural heritage. Yosemite National Park: President Barack Obama and the first family celebrated America's cherished natural heritage Saturday during a weekend tour marking the 100th anniversary of the nation's vaunted national park system. Obama, also using the occasion to tout his environmental record, is the first sitting president since John F. Kennedy in 1962 to visit California's Yosemite National Park. Obama...
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Adidas expects record EUR2.5bn sales from football business
2016-06-16 17:07:12| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
German sportswear giant Adidas has announced its football business is expected to reach new record sales in 2016 after reporting market share gains across Western Europe, especially in key cities, one year after re-launching its football footwear offering.
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