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U.S. Banks Financing Rainforest Destruction for Palm Oil Plantations
2013-11-22 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new report names major U.S. and European banks that are financing land grabs in Indonesia for palm oil production--which is harming the rainforest and the lives of the people who live there--and the investors who are profiting from the business. Palm oil producers in Indonesia are clearing tropical rainforests to plant their oil palm trees, obliterating the homes of endangered animals like orangutans, pygmy elephants and Sumatran tigers. The report, released Thursday by Friends of the Earth,...
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PyroGenesis' Novel Steam Plasma Arc SPARC' Destruction System Exceeds 99.9999% Commercial Destruction Of Ozone Depleting Substances
2013-11-18 04:19:19| pollutiononline News Articles
PyroGenesis Canada Inc.("PyroGenesis" or the "Company") (TSX-V: PYR), an environmental solutions company that designs, develops and manufactures plasma waste-to-energy systems and plasma torch products, today announced that its state-of-the-art, Steam Plasma Arc (SPARC) Destruction System for Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) achieved a 10x greater Destruction Efficiency as compared to the current requirement of 99.9999%
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Philippine Typhoon Destruction Prompts UN Aid Appeal
2013-11-12 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan sought to flee a city devastated by the storm in the southern Philippines as emergency aid became bottlenecked and hungry and exhausted locals resorted to looting. The magnitude of the devastation is overwhelming and our communication lines are still down, regional military spokesman Lieutenant Senior Grade Jim Alagao said today in the neighboring city of Cebu. Two Philippine Air Force C-130 planes are making repeated round trips from Cebu to the area that bore the...
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Report Highlights World-Wide Forest Destruction and Land Grabbing Due to UK Biomass Demand
2013-10-30 16:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Biofuelwatch has launched a new report, Biomass: the Chain of Destruction, focusing on the human and environmental costs of biomass-focused UK renewable energy policy. The report includes the first ever study of a land-grab in Brazil for eucalyptus plantations directly linked to UK demand for wood pellets. The report also documents the impacts of Drax power stations pellet demand, sourced from the destruction of ancient forests in the southern U.S. and Canada. The report goes on to document the...
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Destruction of Perus rainforest by illegal gold mining is twice as bad as experts thought
2013-10-28 18:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The destruction of a global biodiversity hotspot deep in the Peruvian Amazon by illegal gold mining is twice as bad as previously thought, an authoritative new study using ground-breaking technology has revealed. According to the report by the US-based Carnegie Institution for Science, 15,810 acres of rainforest in Perus Madre de Dios region, home to various nature and indigenous reserves as well as a booming eco-tourism industry, have vanished per year since the start of the 2008 global economic...
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