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Tornado Leaves Long Path of Destruction in South
2015-12-25 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The tornado dark, wide and roaring had already raced through about a half-dozen counties by the time it arrived here in Marshall County on Wednesday night and took the first lives of its long rampage. But it was only on Thursday, after a day of storms that killed at least 14 people while they ravaged the rural South, that the magnitude of the natural trauma became clear. I have neighbors, but I dont know where theyre at because theres nothing where their houses used to be, said Cedric...
The 'age of the human' may not become the age of destruction
2015-12-17 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Homo sapiens has become so dominant a force shaping the properties of the biosphere that scientists now refer to the past two centuries as the Anthropocene Epoch the age of the human. This role comes with a huge responsibility; one that, it seems, we have lived up to in the climate deal recently agreed in Paris. We are an infant species, evolving perhaps 150,000 years ago in Africa. For most of our short existence, we were nomadic hunter-gatherers, carrying our possessions while in search of...
Destruction Brazil's Amazon forest jumps 16 percent in 2015
2015-11-27 01:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The destruction of Brazil's Amazon forest, the world's largest intact rainforest, increased by 16 percent in 2015 from a year ago as the government struggles to enforce legislation and stop illegal clearings. Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July released on Thursday showed that 5,831 square km (2,251 square miles) of forests were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico. The data released by the environment ministry on Thursday confirmed preliminary...
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Björk calls for action to prevent destruction of Iceland's highlands
2015-11-06 17:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two of Icelands best-loved artists are trying to draw the worlds attention to the plight of the countrys landscape. Björk and writer-environmentalist Andri Snær Magnason have called for urgent action to protect Icelands highlands at a press conference in Reykjavík today. The highlands, which attract nature lovers from around the world, have limited protection and is potentially facing extensive development. The government has plans to pave roads, erect power lines and install power...
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Brazil has battled for decades to halt Amazon's destruction
2015-11-05 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In December this year the U.N. Climate Conference takes place in Paris. Ahead of the summit, we will release a series of stories, titled "Earthprints," that show the ability of humans to change the landscape of the planet. From sprawling urban growth to the construction of new islands, each site has profoundly changed in the last 30 years. Each story has accompanying NASA satellite images that show the scale of the change. In international talks over global climate policy, Brazil's government...
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