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Study: Oklahoma's daily small quakes linked to energy drilling raise risk of big ones
2015-02-14 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Small earthquakes shaking Oklahoma and southern Kansas daily and linked to energy drilling are dramatically increasing the chance of bigger and dangerous quakes, federal research indicates. This once stable region is now just as likely to see serious damaging and potentially harmful earthquakes as the highest risk places east of the Rockies such as New Madrid, Missouri, and Charleston, South Carolina, which had major quakes in the past two centuries. Still it's a low risk, about a 1 in 2,500...
Warmer Seas Linked To East Coast Hurricane Outbreaks
2015-02-11 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Christopher Columbus explored the New World during wildly tempestuous seafaring times. In the summer of 1502, during his final American voyage, for example, Columbus commanded his fleet to the shelter of an island, now home to Haiti, as a hurricane tore through. Three of the four ships broke anchor in the walloping winds. New research shows that hurricane activity picked up along the American East Coast after 1400, following spikes in nearby sea surface temperatures of up to 3.5°F, before waning...
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Norway asked to divest from company linked to Malaysian official
2015-02-04 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Activists have petitioned the world's largest sovereign wealth fund to drop its investment in a company they say is linked to large-scale corruption in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. In a letter published this week, the Switzerland-based Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) and Norway-based FIVAS recommended that Norway's Government Pension Fund Global sell its $11 million stake in Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS), a Sarawak-based infrastructure majority-owned by relatives of former Sarawak chief minister and current...
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Deaths linked to defective GM switch expected to rise: fund official
2015-02-02 15:47:16| Automakers - Topix.net
The number of eligible claims for deaths and injuries linked to the defective General Motors Co ignition switch that led to the recall of 2.6 million older cars should rise, an official responsible for administering the victim compensation fund said on Monday. The number of deaths deemed eligible for compensation under the program established by GM, the No.
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Climate & population are linked but maybe not way you thought
2015-01-24 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Its not a topic that comes up in high-level international negotiations on climate change. Yet who would disagree that when individuals and couples use modern contraception to plan childbearing according to a schedule that suits them, they tend to have fewer children than they would otherwise? Could it be that this aspect of family planning, multiplied hundreds of millions of times, might lessen the severity of human-caused climate change and boost societies capacity to adapt to it? The Intergovernmental...
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