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Fracking, Water, and Our World
2015-09-26 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Hydraulic fracturing receives much press and is taking place in many parts of the United States. Just a quick review: Fracking is a process of drilling into the earth, then injecting a high-pressure water mixture into the rock to release the gas inside. The water mixture includes sand and chemicals. The gas then flows to the well's head. Several issues tend to be noted regarding fracking. These include its water use, the earthquake increase in a number of areas in which fracking has taken place,...
Before The World Most Powerful, Pope Delivers Environmental Message
2015-09-25 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Pope Francis delivered an appeal for social justice in a speech today to some of the world's most powerful people. Presidents, prime ministers and diplomats gathered for the U.N. General Assembly. He covered many subjects, but his focus was the environment and how its degradation affects the poor most of all. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli is traveling with the pope, and she joins us now from New York. Hi, Sylvia. SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE: Hi, Kelly. MCEVERS: I guess it's not surprising...
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Pope beseeches world leaders to protect the environment
2015-09-25 20:59:18| Telecom - Topix.net
NEW YORK>> Pope Francis declared Friday that the environment itself has rights and that mankind has no authority to abuse them, telling world leaders at the United Nations that they must take urgent action to halt the Earth's destruction from the "selfish and boundless thirst" for money. Hoping to spur concrete commitments at upcoming climate change negotiations in Paris, Francis took the stage in front of more than 100 global dignitaries to accuse the world's wealthy countries of ravaging the planet and impoverishing the weak and disadvantaged in the process.
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World leaders adopt UN goals to end poverty in 15 years
2015-09-25 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: World leaders on Friday pledged to end extreme poverty within 15 years, adopting an ambitious set of UN goals to be backed up by trillions of dollars in development spending. Pope Francis welcomed the new global agenda as an "important sign of hope" in his speech to the UN General Assembly and urged leaders to deliver on their promise to transform the world by 2030. Making his first address to the United Nations, the pontiff sounded a note of warning, saying even the most ambitious pledges...
Elon Musk: Refugee Crisis Just a Glimpse of Whats to Come If World Ignores Climate Change
2015-09-25 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned in a speech in Berlin, Germany that the current refugee crisis could become a whole lot worse because of climate change. Todays refugee problem is perhaps a small indication of what the future will be like if we do not take action with respect to climate change, Musk told an audience at Germanys Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Today, the challenge is in terms of millions of people, but in the future, based on what the scientific consensus is, the...
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