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How Palm Oil Ravages Rainforests, Endangers Wildlife & Destroys Communities

2014-07-18 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Agriculture plays a massive role in todays global economy. Its easy to not realize that your salads fresh tomatoes are likely flown in from the Netherlands, its asparagus is picked by a Peruvian farmer and the dressing has palm oil harvested in Indonesia. Our complicity in an agricultural system that ships food products across the world via air, land and sea becomes a political decision, one that impacts the environment on a global scale. And palm oil, a popular ingredient in nearly 75 percent...

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Obama to help communities adapt to climate change

2014-07-16 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced new measures to make the country's infrastructure stronger and more resilient, to help states and communities adapt to climate change. "Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy," Obama said during a meeting with state, local and tribal officials to discuss global warming. "That means that we should see this as an opportunity to do what we should be doing...

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