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Brazilian beef industry moves reduce its destruction rain forests
2015-05-12 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Expansion of cattle pastures has led to the destruction of huge swaths of rain forest in Brazil, home to the world's largest herd of commercial beef cattle. But a new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Holly Gibbs shows that market-driven "zero deforestation agreements" have dramatically influenced the behavior of ranchers and the slaughterhouses to which they sell. Publishing in the journal Conservation Letters, the research team -- including other UW-Madison scientists, the National...
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Using satellites to stop forest destruction in its tracks
2015-04-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wired: Forests are often described as the lungs of our planet. They`re home to countless animal and plant species, provide humans with oxygen and food, and help stave off the effects of global warming. Yet we as a species are constantly imperiling these vital ecosystems. An estimated 46 to 58 thousand square miles of forest are cut each year. At the current rate of deforestation, the world`s rain forests could be obliterated within just 100 years, according to National Geographic. Now environmentalists...
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Gold rush: How World Bank is financing environmental destruction
2015-04-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: It started as just another farm chore for Elvira Flores, a teenage shepherd in the northern Andean highlands. On Sept. 8, 2013, Flores drove her flock across a dirt road that crosses her family`s rocky green fields and down to a stream. After the sheep drank their fill, something went wrong. ICIJ and The Huffington Post estimate that 3.4 million people have been physically or economically displaced by World Bank-backed projects since 2004. For email updates on our investigation, sign up...
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05.08: In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens
2015-04-15 00:04:31| Powells Books Events Calendar
Mount St. Helens, a napping volcano, blinked awake in March 1980. Author Richard Waitt was part of a U.S. Geological Survey team conducting volcano research in the Cascades, and was one of the first to arrive following the mountain's early rumblings. Waitt's In the Path of Destruction (Washington State University Press) offers a chronology that delivers engrossing science, history, and journalism.
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The Observer view on the destruction of the worlds great coral reefs
2015-04-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In a few weeks, members of Unescos world heritage committee will meet in Bonn to discuss a simple, but disturbing proposition: that Australias Great Barrier Reef, the worlds largest coral reef system, be listed as being in danger. The reef, worth an estimated $Aus5bn (2.6bn) a year in tourism to the nation, is a world heritage site and contains more than 400 types of coral and 1,500 species of fish. Set in turquoise waters off the coast of Queensland, the 1,400-mile reef is one of the planets...
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