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Wildfire threatens two Idaho mountain towns; evacuations ordered
2013-08-14 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A wildfire nipping at the edges of two Idaho mountain resort towns has destroyed about a dozen homes, prompting authorities to intensify calls to hundreds of residents to heed mandatory orders to evacuate, fire officials said on Tuesday. It was unclear how many of the 1,000 summer residents of the towns of Pine and Featherville had actually left their homes ahead of the lightning-sparked blaze, which has already charred 99,000 acres and is now the nation's top firefighting priority. It is the...
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United Kingdom: Fracking 'threatens God's glorious creation'
2013-08-13 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The warning has been issued to Anglicans in Lancashire, where significant work to extract gas and oil by fracking has been proposed. The Diocese of Blackburn has published a leaflet for its flock, telling them that for Christians, fracking presents "a choice between economic gain and a healthy environment.' The church's decision to highlight potential downsides of fracking comes as Conservative ministers step up efforts to sell the technology to voters as an economic necessity. Fracking,...
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Arctics Rapid Sea Ice Loss Threatens Wildlife
2013-08-11 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The loss of Arctic sea ice is bad news for the Pacific walrus, and for polar bears: the walrus has further to swim to dig for clams on the sea floor, and the polar bear has less chance of catching seals. But the real problems begin at the base of the food chain. Since the end of the last century, more than two million square kilometers of sea ice have disappeared, and the loss of summer ice is accelerating. Researchers call this "a stunning loss of habitat for sea ice algae and sub-ice plankton...
Government Threatens To Intervene In Time Warner-CBS Fight
2013-08-11 01:38:38| Telecom - Topix.net
More than 3 million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas will be blocked from watching golf's Major Championship and other popular shows this weekend if the cable company fails to reach an agreement with CBS to end the week-long blackout.
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Growth of farming bubble threatens 5trn catastrophe
2013-08-09 03:36:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The threat posed to agriculture by environmental hazards such as climate change and water scarcity is now so great that it could wipe as much as 5 trillion off the value of the worlds farm land, equipment and stock in any one year, a heavyweight study is warning. Agriculture in the UK and worldwide is under huge financial and physical stress. A surge of investment on the back of a boom in the global food commodities market meets an increasingly precarious physical environment for farming creating...
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