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United Kingdom: Women lead the call to arms as anti-fracking fight intensifies
2016-05-29 07:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We are ready for them, said Tina Louise Rothery. It has been a long battle but we have been ready for a confrontation for a long time. Rothery is one of a growing group of women at the forefront of opposition to fracking. Of the 250 anti-fracking community groups that have sprung up in Britain in the past few years, very many are led, or strongly backed, by women, who say they have been outraged at plans to risk peoples health by exploiting the countryside for shale gas. With drilling...
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USA election: Donald Trump rules out United States presidential debate with Bernie Sanders
2016-05-28 09:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wingatewire: Shortly after Donald Trump nabbed enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, the businessman said he'd "love" to debate Bernie Sanders for $10 million. Trump and Sanders have previously expressed an interest to hold a one-on-one encounter in California, in what could have been an unprecedented move since Republican and Democratic candidates traditionally do not debate each other until the parties have selected their nominees. At a rally in Pomona, California,...
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Australia removed from United Nations climate report over tourism fears
2016-05-27 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IUSBPreface: In Latin America, Coro and its port, in Venezuela; Huascaran National Park in Peru; Atlantic Forest - Southeast Reserves in Brazil; and the National Park Rapa Nui, Chile, are the other vulnerable sites on the World Heritage and Tourism report in a changing climate, prepared by UNESCO in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (USC). Numerous world's most important coral reefs, including in the islands of New Caledonia in the western...
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The United States nuclear system still runs (in part) on eight-inch floppy disks
2016-05-26 20:59:48| Extremetech
The government's critical nuclear missile defense systems still rely on ancient 1970s-era technology -- but that's not as crazy as it might seem at first glance, even if it's long-since time to update the underlying hardware.
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United Kingdom: Fracking is a futile betrayal of our national interest
2016-05-24 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Drinkers in the Ashfield Country Manor Hotel face a dilemma. There is no other pub in the quiet working village of Kirby Misperton in Ryedale. But the landlord has banned discussion on his premises of the very topic that people most want to talk about, because of the strong feelings it arouses. Those feelings are about to get stronger. In the face of overwhelming local opposition, North Yorkshire county council has authorised fracking operations at Kirby Misperton, and in doing so has breathed...
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