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Fjords are unexpected natural allies against climate change: Study
2015-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fjords from Alaska to Norway soak up potentially damaging carbon from the atmosphere, making the steep-sided inlets an overlooked natural ally in offsetting man-made climate change, a study showed on Monday. Fjords cover only 0.1 percent of the world's ocean surface but account for 11 percent of the organic carbon in plants, soils and rocks that gets buried in marine sediments every year after being washed off the land by rivers, it said. The cliff-sided inlets, carved out by glaciers in successive...
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Fracking Chemicals Found in Drinking Water, New Study Says
2015-05-05 15:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If you ask communities on the frontline of the fracking industry in the U.S. what their greatest concern is about the controversial technology, often the reply is the threat to their drinking water. The fracking industry replies in the way it always does to these concerns: it downplays the risks with an arrogance that verges on indifference. The standard reply from the industry is that fracking cannot contaminate water as the fracking rocks are normally thousands of feet below drinking aquifers...
Study: Trace amount of drilling fluid found in water well
2015-05-05 00:47:23| Energy - Topix.net
Toxic fluids used in drilling and hydraulic fracturing likely escaped an unlined borehole and migrated thousands of feet into a residential drinking-water supply in Pennsylvania, according to a study published Monday. At least three water wells in Bradford County, located in the heart of the Marcellus Shale drilling boom, were found to be contaminated with dangerous levels of methane and other substances in 2010.
Study: Trace Amount of Drilling Fluid Found in Water Well
2015-05-05 00:36:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Toxic fluids used in drilling and hydraulic fracturing likely escaped an unlined borehole and migrated thousands of feet into a residential drinking-water supply in Pennsylvania , according to a study published Monday. At least three water wells in Bradford County, located in the heart of the Marcellus Shale drilling boom, were found to be contaminated with dangerous levels of methane and other substances in 2010.
Study: Cutting carbon dioxide saves 3,500 US lives a year
2015-05-04 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Obama Administration's hotly debated plan to reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the nation's power plants will save about 3,500 lives a year by cutting back on other types of pollution as well, a new independent study concludes. A study from Harvard and Syracuse University calculates the decline in heart attacks and lung disease when soot and smog are reduced - an anticipated byproduct of the president's proposed power plant rule, which aims to fight global warming by limiting carbon dioxide...
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