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Land grabbing and environmental destruction could now be prosecuted under international law
2016-09-22 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The International Criminal Court (ICC), housed at The Hague in the Netherlands, has mostly focused on human rights abuses and war crimes committed during armed conflicts throughout its 14-year history. But the court has now signaled that it will begin investigating crimes such as land grabbing, environmental destruction, and forced evictions that are often committed during peacetime in the pursuit of profit. In a detailed policy paper on case selection and prioritization released last week, ICC...
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Ancient Native American Lands are Threatened With Destruction by Oil Interests
2016-09-12 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
One Green Planet: The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation encompasses 2.3 million acres of land in North Dakota and is home to more than 8,000 members of the Sioux tribe. For the past several months, the people of the reservation have been fighting to protect their sacred lands and precious water supply from potential destruction in the form of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Water is life, according to the Sioux. In a land where surface water and shallow groundwater are scarce and unreliable sources of water, the...
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Microsoft cuts nearly 3,000 jobs to complete its destruction of Nokia
2016-08-01 14:36:36| Extremetech
Microsoft has now eliminated almost all the jobs is picked up in the Nokia acquisition as it pulls back from smartphones.
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Forest Service Plan Would Perpetuate Destruction of Tongass Old-Growth
2016-06-30 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Justice: Forest Service Plan Would Perpetuate Destruction of Tongass Old-Growth Proposed plan continues the controversy of old-growth logging for years to come, fails to protect real economic drivers, and impairs the countrys ability to combat climate change This plan also costs our country tens of millions of dollars every year unsustainable old-growth logging continues. The Forest Service is forcing taxpayers to write the check to subsidize an industry that cant survive on its own. Holly Harris...
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Oregon explosion reminds us oil trains are weapons of mass destruction
2016-06-07 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: An oil train that went off the tracks and burst into flames in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon last week hasn`t been cleaned up yet, but the railroad is already back to business as usual. And many North Americans are feeling renewed anxieties about the danger of what activists call "bomb trains." On Friday, 16 Union Pacific train cars filled with highly combustible fracked oil from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota derailed outside Mosier, Ore. Multiple cars caught fire, and about...
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