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Pope Francis says destroying Earth and the environment is a sin

2016-09-11 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

iNewsToday: Pope Francis attends a vesper prayer in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday. Recalling that "the Catechism of the Catholic Church presents the confessional as the place where the truth makes us free", the Pope called upon the faithful to repent of the ecological damage they have caused and to make a "firm goal of amendment" to act in concrete ways that are "more respectful of creation". Remarking on the planet's rapid warming, Francis observed that "c$3 limate change is also contributing...

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Scientists expect to calculate amount of fuel inside Earth by 2025

2016-09-11 00:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Earth requires fuel to drive plate tectonics, volcanoes and its magnetic field. Like a hybrid car, Earth taps two sources of energy to run its engine: primordial energy from assembling the planet and nuclear energy from the heat produced during natural radioactive decay. Scientists have developed numerous models to predict how much fuel remains inside Earth to drive its engines -- and estimates vary widely -- but the true amount remains unknown. In a new paper, a team of geologists and neutrino...

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NASA images reveal extent of human impact on Earth

2016-09-06 12:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A new documentary made with the help of NASA is a stark reminder of just how big an impact humans have had on the planet, according to a former astronaut who served as a space consultant on the project. Marsha Ivins was first selected into the NASA Astronaut Class of 1984 as a mission specialist and has since logged more than 1,300 hours in space. "[The idea] for this documentary was to show people not just life on board a space station ... but the footprint that we as human beings have put...

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