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Elephants in Africa Reserve Will Vanish by 2022 Due to Poaching, WWF Says
2016-06-02 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Elephants in one of Africa's largest and oldest reserves are feared to be wiped out by 2022, and this is because of poaching and mining, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says. Selous national park in Tanzania is a world heritage site and is the oldest in Africa, boasting about 110,000 elephants 40 years ago. But it has already lost an average of about 2,500 elephants a year since 1970. Now, the number has gone down to a critical 15,000 count, according to the latest census. "The population...
Peabody's Australian mines in jeopardy despite minister's advice, says lawyer
2016-06-02 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Josh Frydenberg should revisit reassurances he gave workers at Peabodys Australian coalmines after the company filed financial statements revealing a dire financial position, an environmental lawyer who has studied the documents says. When the worlds biggest coalminer, Peabody Energy, sought bankruptcy protection in the United States in April, the federal resources minister said he had been reassured none of the companys 3,500 Australian workers would be losing their jobs. My primary...
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Mars Exploration and Agribusiness May Learn From Each Other, Says Dr Gernot Groemer
2016-05-31 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
There may be opportunities for the cross-fertilisation of ideas between the Mars exploration research efforts and the agriculture sector, according to Dr Groemer, president of the Austrian Space Forum who heads the PolAres Mars simulation programme.
Easter Island statues could fall into sea due to climate change, U.N. says
2016-05-29 23:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Higher waves caused by a warming planet are chipping away at platforms that have supported some of the famous statues on Easter Island for more than 500 years, according to a United Nations report on cultural heritage sites and climate change. "Some Easter Island statues are at risk of being lost to the sea because of coastal erosion," said Adam Markham, deputy director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and lead author of the report, which examined the potential...
Homeowners kept in dark about climate change risk to houses, says report
2016-05-29 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The risk that houses in some areas of Australia are likely to become uninsurable, dilapidated and uninhabitable due to climate change is kept hidden from those building and buying property along Australias coasts and in bushfire zones, a Climate Institute report says. The report says there is untapped and unshared data held by regulators, state and local governments, insurers and banks on the level of risk, but that most homebuyers and developers are not told about the data and do not have access...
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