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Artificial intelligence: Were like children playing with a bomb

2016-06-12 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Youll find the Future of Humanity Institute down a medieval backstreet in the centre of Oxford. It is beside St Ebbes church, which has stood on this site since 1005, and above a Pure Gym, which opened in April. The institute, a research faculty of Oxford University, was established a decade ago to ask the very biggest questions on our behalf. Notably: what exactly are the existential risks that threaten the future of our species; how do we measure them; and what can we do to prevent them? Or...

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As a worker the Great Barrier Reef I'm ashamed to look my children in the eye

2016-06-07 01:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: As a marine ecologist who has been working on the Great Barrier Reef for 30 years I am today still stunned, often tearful, and ashamed to look my children in the eye. The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing change that means it will never be the same again in my lifetime. It will take decades to regrow. To put this in a global perspective, considering the reef as a whole, an area of the reef the size of Scotland has coral in it that is largely dead. If most or all the coral on a reef bleaches...

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New Fracking Study Finds Children at Greater Risk of Respiratory Health Problems

2016-05-12 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations such as fracking might allow for cheaper prices to heat your home, but a growing number of scientists are becoming concerned about its unacceptable health implications. In the first comprehensive literature review to date on the respiratory health risks associated with UOG, experts from the Center for Environmental Health, the Institute for Health and the Environment, Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments...

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