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Climate change threatens major building projects, says Chinese expert
2015-05-04 05:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change threatens some of Chinas most important infrastructure projects, Chinas top meteorologist has warned, and added that its rate of warming was higher than the global average. Zheng Guoguang, head of Chinas meteorological administration, told Mondays issue of state newspaper the Study Times that the increase in recent weather disasters such as floods, typhoons, droughts and heat waves had a big connection to climate change. Such catastrophes were a threat to big schemes such...
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How Forest Fragmentation Threatens Biodiversity
2015-04-30 20:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. currently has 59 national parks, protecting more than 210,000 square miles of land with several more public lands being preserved on state and local levels. Very few national parks are large enough to contain ecosystems. Problems such as greenhouse gases, climate change, industrial fumes, the extent of land development and their environmental impacts were not envisioned when most of their borders were first enacted. The physical boundaries of these public lands are not enough to protect...
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UK threatens to revoke DEA North Sea licences unless LetterOne sells stake
2015-04-21 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
The UK Government proposes to revoke North Sea petroleum licences owned by DEA UK, unless LettrOne, owned by Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman, offloads its stake.
Demand for rubber 'threatens forests'
2015-04-17 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The global demand for rubber tyres is threatening protected forests in Southeast Asia, according to a study. Tropical forests are being cleared for rubber plantations, putting endangered birds, bats and primates at risk, say UK researchers. By 2024, up to 8.5 million hectares of new rubber plantations will be needed to meet demand, they report in Conservation Letters. This could have a "catastrophic" impact on wildlife, they warn. Species such as the endangered white-shouldered ibis, yellow-cheeked...
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Willamette Riverkeeper threatens suit over slaughterhouse blood in river
2015-04-10 23:44:12| Waste Management - Topix.net
An environmental group has threatened to sue a Lane County slaughterhouse and meat packer, saying it discharged blood and other liquid waste in violation of the federal Clean Water Act. The notice lists four violations documented by the state Department of Environmental Quality.
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