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Looking to beat back encroaching desert, Chile preserves forests
2015-06-19 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As part of efforts to counteract desertification and erosion brought about by climate change, Chile will invest $250 million to plant vast tracks of native forest, the national forestry agency said on Friday. Home to the Atacama desert, the world's driest, Chile will plant trees on 100,000 hectares. The forestry agency Conaf will also incorporate a similar amount of forest in the 13 million hectares it already manages as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. "Some $1.5...
Auto Dealers Say Shopping Sites Encroaching
2014-05-05 19:33:23| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
AutoNation Inc. and other dealers are worried about more than the rising cost of leads from third-party car-shopping sites.
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Many Amish selling land to flee encroaching oil boom in Ohio, cashing in on royalties
2013-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Farmers in the close-knit Amish community who eschew electricity and most technology, are among landowners capitalizing on a new financial trend in the United States energy boom - selling decades of future oil and natural gas royalties for an immediate pile of cash. Gulfport Energy Corp, Chesapeake Energy Corp , Anadarko Petroleum Corp and others have spent billions developing oil and gas reserves on land in Ohio's Utica shale formation - often by agreeing to give landowners years of royalties,...
Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean
2013-05-08 15:37:49| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean. For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living along the shorelines of the southern Caribbean island, there's nothing theoretical about the threat of rising sea levels. "The sea will take this whole place down," Augustin said as he...
Organic Farmers Struggle to Protect Land from Encroaching Fracking Industry
2013-04-01 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Many farmers in Pennsylvania welcomed the natural gas industry with open arms, letting companies set up operations on their land to drill wells and fracture the shale rock thousands of feet under the surface. Pennsylvania would not have become one of the top gas producing states in the U.S. in such a short period without the acquiescence of the state`s farming community. Not every landowner, though, believed in the promise of riches or bought into the gas industry`s image of family farms coexisting...
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