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How Nations Are Chipping Away at Their Protected Lands
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: How Nations Are Chipping Away at Their Protected Lands Winning protected status for key natural areas and habitat has long been seen as the gold standard of conservation. But these gains are increasingly being compromised as governments redraw park boundaries to accommodate mining, logging, and other development. Its the saddest truism in wildlife conservation: When politicians announce that they are setting aside precious habitat in perpetuity, what they really mean is until somebody...
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API Applauds Latest Effort To Pass LNG Exports Legislation, Recognizes Nation's Role To Diversify Global Energy Supply, Enhance National Security
2016-05-05 06:03:25| oilandgasonline Home Page
The American Petroleum Institute applauded the U.S. House Armed Services Committee’s passage of the LNG exports amendment in the FY17 National Defense Authorization Act, which would streamline the Department of Energy permit application process and strengthen economic development and energy security in the U.S. and abroad.
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Climate change threatens health of Pacific island nations
2016-04-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Circle of Blue: In the urgent campaign to cut carbon emissions and curb global warming, perhaps the most poignant call to action are images of rising sea levels gnawing away at isolated, low-lying Pacific islands where citizens could lose their countries. But long before the last scraps of land succumb to the great ocean, fiercer storms brought on by climate change could hobble the health infrastructure of island nations and exact a steep toll in human lives, according to a study published this week in the American...
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China, US join record United Nations signing of Paris climate deal
2016-04-24 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Times: Leonardo DiCaprio addressed world leaders on climate change at the United Nations "High-Level Signature Ceremony for the Paris Agreement" on Friday, the day before Earth Day. China, the world's top carbon emitter, will ratify the Paris deal by September, Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli said yesterday. The signing sets a record for the number of countries signing an agreement on the first available day, according to the Associated Press. But world leaders made clear more action is needed, and quickly,...
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175 nations sign historic Paris climate deal on Earth Day
2016-04-23 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KTHV: World leaders from 175 countries signed the historic Paris climate accord Friday, using Earth Day as a backdrop for the ceremonial inking of a long-fought deal that aims to slow the rise of harmful greenhouse gases. "We are in a race against time." U.N. secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the gathering at the United Nations headquarters in New York. "The era of consumption without consequences is over." "The poor and most vulnerable must not suffer further from a problem they did not create," Ban...
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