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Giant Sequoias Face Looming Threat from Shifting Climate
2013-03-21 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Few living things seem as permanent as the giant sequoia trees of Californias Sierra Nevada. The largest species of flora or fauna on Earth, these towering redwood trees have held sway for millions of years in a narrow band of their native mountain habitat. With heights reaching 300 feet and girths as large as 150 feet, some sequoias can live in excess of 3,000 years before being naturally toppled by a combination of weather and gravity. Although giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) have...
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Indonesian palm oil giant launches conservation pilot project
2013-03-19 03:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Golden Agri-Resources, one of the largest palm oil producers in Indonesia, is launching a pilot program designed to protect forests within its concession areas that have high carbon stock and those most important for conservation. Greenpeace Indonesia, which has long urged the company to adopt more sustainable practices, praised the effort, and called on other palm oil companies and the Indonesian government to follow suit. Under its Forest Conservation Policy, developed together with Greenpeace...
Eni announces first production from the Junin-5 giant heavy oil field in Venezuela
2013-03-17 15:30:21| Green Car Congress
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Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
2013-03-16 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Survival International: Amazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés Indians gathered on the border of Peru and Brazil last Saturday and called on their governments to stop the exploration, warning that the work will devastate their forest home. The oil giant Pacific Rubiales is headquartered in Canada and has already started oil exploration in 'Block 135` in Peru, which lies directly...
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Giant sandcastle Minas Tirith survives orcs, falls to rain
2013-03-11 20:27:09| CNET News.com
Artist spends years creating a massive, painstaking replica of Minas Tirith from "Lord of the Rings" out of sand. [Read more]
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