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Exxon Mobil ends oil exploration in Madagascar after poor finds -minister
2015-07-04 07:17:37| Chemicals - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil Corp has ended its oil exploration in Madagascar after disappointing findings in its off-shore blocks, the Malagasy Mining and Petroleum Minister said on Friday. Exxon's affiliates resumed exploration in Madagascar in 2013 after a four-year pause due to a force majeure declared after the 2009 coup on the Indian Ocean island.
Catholic leaders press GOP to heed pope on climate, poor
2015-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Roman Catholic leaders in the early voting state of Iowa implored candidates for president Thursday to take up Pope Francis call for profound political courage by focusing their campaigns as much on improving the environment and income inequality as they have on opposing gay marriage and abortion in past elections. The vocal pivot from such traditional social issues marks the first time U.S. Catholic bishops have publicly asked those seeking the White House to heed the admonitions of Francis...
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Food Corporation of India stuck with 27 million tonnes of poor wheat
2015-07-01 03:33:37| Agriculture - Topix.net
NEW DELHI: The Food Corporation of India is saddled with 27 million tonnes of wheat. Since 90 per cent of grain procured this year were under relaxed norms, these stocks have a shorter shelf life and must be used in 8 to 10 months.
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'Lack of trust' on climate aid still dividing wealthier, poor nations ahead of Paris talks
2015-06-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Countries have made too little progress bridging the lack of trust between richer and poorer nations just five months before global climate accord talks begin in Paris, the head of the UN climate secretariat told Bloomberg BNA June 29. There is a lack of clarity and a lack of trust between the two sides that will have to be resolved if the accord--which is to be the first to include actions from developed and developing nations alike--is to be signed by nearly 200 nations at year's end, Christiana...
Like the Pope says, climate change in Seattle will impact the poor most
2015-06-27 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Globalist: Pope Francis is not the first to urge humanity to change its wasteful ways. But he may have given the harshest lecture last week, when he released an encyclical condemning policymakers weak responses to climate change problems, calling developed countries to cut carbon emissions, and linking climate change and social inequity. The deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet, the encyclical reads. Both everyday experience and scientific research...
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