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Climate Change and Rising Tides Will Sink Thousands of Oregon Homes Says New Report
2016-08-05 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Patch: It may not be the best time to make long-term real estate investments along the Oregon Coast, according to a new report from Zillow, the real estate website. The website used data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to look at the 23 states in the U.S. along the coast to examine which parts would be underwater if sea levels rise by as much as 6 feet. Zillow said that benchmark was picked because some researchers say that is how much sea levels could rise by 2100. In...
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Australia: Queensland farmers bulldoze thousands of hectares of native vegetation
2016-08-01 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Queensland farmers campaigning against stronger tree clearing regulations and who have said farmers are the countrys greatest environmentalists have bulldozed thousands of hectares of native vegetation. Under the previous LNP government, regulations were relaxed to allow farmers to clear large areas. The environmental group WWF said the clearing of almost all immature trees on one property in central Queensland Corntop appeared to go beyond what even the current regulations allowed. ...
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Pollution from power plants in two states killed thousands of people last year
2016-07-15 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: How poisonous are power plants? An estimated 2,300 people in the United States died prematurely because of Pennsylvanias power plants just last year, according to a study out Thursday. Across the border in Ohio, power plants claimed another 2,130 lives last year. The healthcare bill for people suffering from power plants in both states hit $40 billion. These startling numbers come from a pair of reports from NextGen Climate America and PSE Healthy Energy, which looked at two states infamous for...
United Kingdom: Thousands Got Naked and Painted Their Bodies Blue for Climate Change
2016-07-11 20:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: If you were taking a morning stroll through the British town of Hull over the weekend, you might have been shocked to find a surreal, Smurf-like scene: a crowd of roughly 3,200 completely nude people gathered in the streets, all clustered together and painted bright shades of marine blue. The art installation was the brainchild of U.S.-based photographer Spencer Tunick, who was asked by a local museum to create one of his iconic large-scale works. Tunick put out a call for volunteers to participate...
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Pollution Still Killing Thousands, 60 Years Since Clean Air Act
2016-07-05 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Clean Air Act, introduced 60 years ago, still does not prevent the death of thousands of people in Scotland. In a decisive and successful response to the Great Smog of 1952 that killed 12,000 people, the Clean Air Act of 1956 introduced controls on industrial pollution and the burning of coal. However, since the 1950s traffic levels have sky-rocketed and air pollution now claims over 2,500 lives in Scotland annually. Friends of the Earth Scotlands Air Pollution Campaigner, Emilia Hanna,...
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