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Why Countries Invest Differently In Environmental Issues
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 26th, 2013
National Public Radio: We're not just talking about measures to combat global climate change — we're talking about investments in clean water, forests and biodiversity. A new study explores a novel theory about these differences.
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Posted by Guardian: Oliver Milman on November 26th, 2013
Guardian: Australia is failing to protect its endangered species due a "dreadful' track record in planning, monitoring and responding to threats, a group of leading conservationists has warned.
A paper published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment states that monitoring is a "critical part' of effective species conservation, but that "many species are being monitored until they go extinct'.
"Management intervention should be triggered when it becomes apparent that a monitored species...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Australia under fire for failing to protect threatened animalsExposed: fracking licenses granted in Bushmen’s reserve
Posted by Survival International: None Given on November 25th, 2013
Survival International: Large parts of Botswana`s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) – home to Africa`s last hunting Bushmen – have been opened up to international companies for the controversial practice of 'fracking`, according to an investigation for the documentary film 'The High Cost of Cheap Gas` and British newspaper The Guardian.
A leaked map shows that exploration concessions have been granted for half of the CKGR – a reserve larger than Switzerland – raising fears of land grabbing, a drop in water levels...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 25th, 2013
Ecologist: As oceans continue to warm, the number of ships bearing invasive species will increase, and the number of species that may be able to survive in Svalbard will increase.
More shipping is sailing through thawing Arctic waters, but while these northern routes might provide opportunities for tourism, mining and cutting down delivery times, the ships may also carry stowaways on board, introducing invasive species to pristine Arctic waters.
These findings were recently published in the journal Diversity...
Shattered by Oil: Exxon Arkansas Spill and the People Left Behind, Part 1
Posted by InsideClimate: Elizabeth McGowan on November 25th, 2013
InsideClimate: On March 29, 2013, an ExxonMobil oil pipeline that runs under a tiny residential neighborhood in Mayflower, Ark. split open and spilled 210,000 gallons of Canadian dilbit across backyards and streets and in waterways. InsideClimate News spent months reporting the spill [3] on the ground. In Part 1 of "Shattered by Oil" [4]—an ICN co-production with This American Land [5]—Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth McGowan [6] returns to Mayflower, Ark., to explore the fate of residents who are living with the...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Shattered by Oil: Exxon Arkansas Spill and the People Left Behind, Part 1A Neighborhood Shattered: Families Emptying Out of Oil-Hit Arkansas Town
Posted by InsideClimate: Sam Eifling and Zahra Hirji on November 25th, 2013
InsideClimate: American property owners battling to stop energy companies from snaking oil pipelines across their lands need only look to Mayflower, Ark., for a window into what can go wrong when pipelines burst in backyards.
Eight months after an ExxonMobil pipeline leaked Canadian oil across an Arkansas subdivision, a cloud of uncertainty looms large over the young families, singles and retirees who chose the affordable, decade-old Northwoods neighborhood to establish roots. Nearly half of them have put their...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 25th, 2013
Inter Press Service: To the casual passer-by, Petrus Kabaliso and his wife Cynthia present a disarmingly rustic sight, seated as they are under the shade of a date palm at a truck stop in the scorching Karoo desert, in South Africa`s Northern Cape province, a battered umbrella held jauntily over their heads.
"We find it very hard to live here," Petrus, 59, tells IPS. "We find old metal, and sometimes the trucks that stop here leave bottles in the rubbish. We can change this for money, and buy pap [maize meal porridge]...
Freezing weather spreads as storm heads toward U.S. East Coast
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 25th, 2013
Reuters: Thanksgiving travel may be snarled by a wintry storm system heading for the East Coast, bringing snow, sleet and rain to a region already plunged in to sub-freezing temperatures, the National Weather Service said Sunday.
Forecasters warned the winter storm now in the Southwest could cause flight delays and icy roads for some of the millions of people traveling for the holiday, depending on the path it takes as it heads eastward.
"There's still a whole lot of uncertainty," Lora Wilson, a National...
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Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: Two Youngstown, OH community members were arrested today at a nonviolent protest and rally at a fracking wastewater injection well site in Niles, OH. The two protesters were arrested for blocking trucks from entering the well site while holding a “Fracking Hurts Communities” banner. More than 50 people from Ohio and Pennsylvania attended the rally.
“The state of Ohio has refused to protect its communities from fracking," said Chris Khumprakob, who was arrested during the protest. "Hydraulic fracturing...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Two Arrested Protesting Fracking Wastewater Injection WellGlobal war against indigenous intensifying as imperialists scramble for land and resources
Posted by Deep Green Resistance: Ron Corben on November 24th, 2013
Deep Green Resistance: A new report on minorities and indigenous people warns that the global 'intensification` in the exploitation of natural resources is leading to mounting conflicts for the world`s 370 million indigenous people.
The report for 2012 by the London-based human rights group, Minority Rights Group International (MRG), says indigenous peoples "in every region of the world" face the risk of being "driven from their land and natural resources."
The land and resources are all "vital for their livelihoods,...
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