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Study: More than a 10th of Earth's wilderness lost since the 1990s
2016-09-12 09:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: It's a bleak revelation -- a new study reveals that about a tenth of the Earth's wilderness has been lost since the 1990s. Over the last 20 years, a total area half the size of the Amazon and twice the size of Alaska has been depleted. The researchers behind the study, published in the journal Current Biology, say they hope that the sobering revelation that rich natural habitats like the Amazon have been decimated in a relatively short amount of time will act as a wakeup call to global leaders...
10% of Earths Wilderness Has Disappeared Since the 1990s
2016-09-10 03:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mental Floss: Not so long ago, the majority of the Earth was blanketed in forests and jungles, vast deserts, and sprawling savannas. But these days, the Earths wilderness is rapidly eroding. The Verge reports that, according to a recent study published in Current Biology, 10 percent of the Earths wilderness has disappeared in the last two decades alone. Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society analyzed satellite and survey data since the 1990s in order to measure the loss of the Earths untamed...
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One person every second displaced by natural disaster since 2008: Report
2016-09-06 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indilens: On an average, one person every second is displaced by disasters brought on by natural hazards since 2008, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The IDMC estimates that more than 19.3 million people were forced to flee their homes by disasters in 100 countries in 2014. Hundreds of thousands more are still displaced following disasters in previous years. The latest victims of this global temperature trend are the residents of a tiny village in Alaska, on the north-western...
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NSC: US motor vehicle fatalities up 9% in 1H 2016; trending toward deadliest driving year since 2007
2016-08-26 19:55:29| Green Car Congress
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US new home sales rise at fastest pace since 2007
2016-08-23 18:57:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
US new home sales jumped in July to the fastest pace in nearly nine years, according to official figures.
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