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Decline of bees poses potential risks to major crops, says UN
2016-02-26 11:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Populations of bees, butterflies and other species important for agricultural pollination are declining, posing potential risks to major world crops, a UN body on biodiversity said Friday. Many wild bees and butterflies have been declining in abundance, occurrence and diversity at local and regional scales in Northwest Europe and North America, said an assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It said declines had also been detected...
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Jailing Heathrow 13 poses 'massive threat' peaceful protest rights
2016-02-12 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Jailing the 13 activists who last year chained themselves on Heathrows northern runway in protest at the airports expansion would represent a massive threat to the right to peaceful protest in the UK, according to John McDonnell and Caroline Lucas. In a letter to the Guardian, the shadow chancellor and Green party MP, along with the vice-president of the National Union of Students and several prominent environmentalists, warn that prison sentences for the climate campaigners would be unjust...
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Landfill with Love Canal Legacy Still Poses Danger
2016-02-10 22:15:00| Waste Age
Investigative Post The Love Canal waste has since been exhumed and shipped to out-of-state incinerators, but further tests show the landfill remains toxic. read more
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Climate Change Poses Threat to Key Ingredient in Beer, NOAA Warns
2016-02-07 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As any beer lover knows, hops are a key ingredient in beer. But now, climate change poses a threat to hops production, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The U.S. is the second largest hops-producing country in the world. But almost all of the nation`s commercial hopyards are located in just three states: Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Washington alone produces nearly three-quarters of all the nation`s hops. In 2015, an estimated 71 percent of U.S. hops were...
Shallow groundwater poses pollution problem for Africa
2016-01-11 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDev: The groundwater in many of Africa's most crowded regions lies close to the surface, making it vulnerable to pollution, a study shows. Regions along the Gulf of Guinea are at highest risk of groundwater pollution on the continent, according to a map drawn by researchers at the Université Catholique de Louvain's Earth and Life Institute in Belgium. Much of Central Africa and some coastal lands in northwest Africa are also vulnerable, the map shows. The study, to be published in next month's issue...
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