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Mass. City Exploring New Waste and Recycling Plan
2016-07-12 16:10:00| Waste Age
City officials in Pittsfield, Mass., are looking to develop a new solid waste plan with a local WTE plant shuttering. read more
Mass killings, forced evictions threaten indigenous, minority groups to point of 'eradication' - rights group
2016-07-11 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mass killings, forced evictions and conflicts over land put indigenous and minority groups at risk of being eradicated from their ancestral lands, a human rights group said on Tuesday. From Ethiopia, China and Iraq, the combination of armed conflicts and land dispossession has led to the persecution of minority groups and the erosion of cultural heritage, according to a report by the Minority Rights Group (MRG). Carl Soderbergh, MRG director of policy and communications, said while discrimination...
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'This is what climate change looks like', mass mangrove die offs hit top end
2016-07-11 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AFP: Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia's remote north have died, scientists said Monday, with climate change the likely cause. Some 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres), or nine percent of the mangroves in the Gulf of Carpentaria, perished in just one month according to researchers from Australia's James Cook University, the first time such an event has been recorded. It follows massive coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef from climate change and the news last week that warmer ocean...
Mass. City Adding RFID Technology to Waste Collection
2016-07-07 05:05:42| Waste Age
The Wheaton City Council agreed to sign a contract with a new solid waste vendor that would use RFID technology to help track collections and fees. read more
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Vietnam blames toxic waste water from steel plant for mass fish deaths
2016-07-01 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Vietnams government has said toxic discharges from a Taiwanese-owned steel plant were responsible for massive fish deaths that have decimated tourism and fishing in four provinces and highlighted the risks of rapid growth in foreign investment. An estimated 70 tonnes of dead fish washed ashore along more than 200 km (125 miles) of Vietnams central coastline in early April, sparking rare protests across the country after the Taiwanese company denied any wrongdoing. A government minister, Mai...
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