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Brazil to sue mining companies BHP & Vale for $5bn over dam disaster
2015-11-28 03:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Brazils government has announced it will sue mining giants BHP Billiton and Vale for $US5.2bn after the deadly collapse of a dam at an iron ore mine sent 60 million cubic meters of mud and mine waste cascading into the Atlantic ocean and left more than 13 people dead. Environment minister Izabella Teixeira said a lawsuit would be filed demanding that the companies and the mine operator Samarco, which they co-own, create a fund of 20 billion reais to pay for environmental recovery and compensation...
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Brazil dam burst BHP boss inspect disaster zone dozens still missing
2015-11-09 03:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The boss of BHP Billiton will arrive in Brazil on Monday to see at first-hand the devastation wrought by the collapse of a dam at an iron ore mine co-owned by the company that has left at least two dead and dozens missing. Three days after the rupturing of two dams unleashed a massive flood of mud on nearby villages, authorities were still struggling to determine the cause of the disaster or even recover the bodies of as many as 28 people lost in the torrent. Amid mounting criticism by officials,...
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El Nio doubt delays disaster preparation
2015-10-21 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Disagreement between scientists over whether Central and South America are about to be hit by a major El Nio event are delaying vital preparations, the region's weather organisations warn. South American scientists are still quibbling over whether an El Nio event is building. The uncertainty is impacting officials and states, who must act soon to prevent the worst scenarios, including deaths from natural disasters, meteorological organisations say. Eduardo Zambrano, a researcher at the International...
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Fukushima nuclear disaster: first worker diagnosed with cancer linked to cleanup
2015-10-20 17:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A 41-year old man has become the first worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to be diagnosed with cancer that officials recognise as being linked to his work there after the March 2011 disaster. The unnamed man, who was diagnosed with leukaemia in January 2014 after feeling unwell, spent a year working on reactor buildings that were badly damaged after a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a tsunami that struck Fukushima and other parts of Japans north-east coast on 11 March 2011....
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Climate Pledges Too Weak to Avert Disaster
2015-10-20 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: World leaders gathering in Paris in December for the 21st annual UN Climate Conference, COP21, are expected to sign a legally-binding international agreement to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Ahead of the conference, organizers have requested that countries submit Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, or INDCs, pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by an amount that supposed to be fair and ambitious. To date, 150 INDCs have been...
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