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Oil or rainforest: new website highlights plight Yasuni National Park

2014-03-20 20:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: A new website by Brazilian environmental news group, ((o))eco, highlights the ongoing debate over Yasuni National Park in Ecuador, arguably the most biodiverse place on the planet. Employing text, video, timelines, maps, and photos, the website provides an immersive experience into the issues facing the park and the work of those trying to preserve it. "[Yasuni] matters due to [its] unique and rich biodiversity, to the fact that it is home to some of the last isolated native tribes of the Waorani...

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'Worse than useless': Flood-affected locals on the Somerset Levels blame plight on Environmental Agency

2014-02-04 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Like most of the residents of Muchelney, farmer Graham Walker has had enough of the floods that have left his fields underwater and his sheep scattered for six weeks. The village in the middle of the Somerset Levels has been cut off from the mainland since the New Year and, like most of his fellow residents, Mr Walker puts the blame squarely with the Environment Agency (EA) for its failure to dredge... local rivers. [It] has been worse than useless, he said. Weve told them for years...

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A Scientist's New Job: Keeping The Polar Bear's Plight Public

2013-12-28 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: The Endangered Species Act, which turns 40 on Saturday, helped bring back iconic species such as the wolf, grizzly bear and bald eagle, after hunting, trapping and pesticides almost wiped those animals out. But a very different kind of threat - global warming - is pushing some species like the polar bear to the brink of extinction. One government biologist discovered the best way he could help save polar bears was to quit his job. A New Kind Of Conservation Problem Several years ago,...

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