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Activists press Obama on climate change
2013-02-12 06:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News24: Activists are stepping up pressure on US President Barack Obama to issue concrete plans to battle climate change, with a major rally planned in Washington following his annual address to Congress. More than 100 groups are planning what they hope will be the largest rally in the US on climate change, with organisers saying that tens of thousands will descend on the National Mall with buses coming from 28 states. The demonstration comes after the US in 2012 experienced record high temperatures,...
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Activists blast World Bank on continued support of industrial rainforest logging
2013-02-11 21:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Two environmental activist groups blasted the World Bank over its reported decision to block a probe into its support of industrial-scale rainforest logging. Greenpeace and Global Witness issued a statement condemning last Friday's decision by The World Bank Board of Directors not to pursue a review of its lending to industrial logging companies. The review was recommended by an independent audit committee that has been conducting an evaluation of the effectiveness of a decade's worth of World...
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Minnesota moose population plummets, activists blame climate
2013-02-09 16:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The population of moose in northeastern Minnesota dropped by 35 percent since last year, prompting state officials to cancel this year's fall hunt and conservationists to blame warming temperatures for the massive creature's decline. "The state's moose population has been in decline for years but never at the precipitous rate documented this winter," Tom Landwehr, Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources commissions, said in a statement Wednesday. This year's drop in population continues...
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Making climate change a priority, Obama gives hope to activists
2013-02-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
American-Statesman: Where other people see perfectly healthy trees, Anna Graybeal sees drought-stricken skeletons. The changing climate is putting these trees at risk, she says, gazing out, with a hint of terror, from a table at an Austin coffee shop recently. As volunteers for the Citizens Climate Lobby, Graybeal, 47, a psychologist, and her friend, Susan Adams, 40, a technical writer, are among a dozen or so Austinites working on a seemingly Sisyphean effort to get federal lawmakers to adopt a tax-and-dividend...
Animal Agriculture Encouraged to be Responsive to Attacks by Animal Activists
2013-02-01 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The executive director of the Center for Food Integrity USA says those involved in animal agriculture need to be continually responsive to attacks by animal activist groups, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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