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BP Oil Spill Cost Fishing Industry At Least $94.7 Million in 2010

2016-06-28 13:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Times-Picayune: The BP oil disaster cost the Gulf of Mexico's commercial fishing industry $94.7 million to $1.6 billion and anywhere from 740 to 9,315 jobs in the first eight months, according to a new study by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The $355,888 study measured the effect of the Macondo well blowout from May through December 2010, the same period of time that is being used to calculate claims being paid to fishers under a 2012 court-approved settlement agreement between private parties and BP....

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Secret Federal Program Admits Killing 3.2 Million Wild Animals Last Year Alone

2016-06-27 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EnviroNews: The United States Department of Agriculture`s (USDA) Wildlife Services (WS) admitted in its annual Program Data Report to having killed at least 3.2 million wild animals in 2015 alone - many of which were large predators. 1,681,283 of that total were animals native to the United States. Environmental groups are already sounding the alarm, pointing out most of the exterminations were "at the behest of the agriculture and livestock industries." Former employees have also blown the whistle, claiming...

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WhatsApp up to 100 million voice calls a day

2016-06-27 08:19:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Users of the messaging service WhatsApp are already making over 100 million voice calls every day just over a year since the feature finished rolling out to Android and iOS users. In a brief blog post, WhatsApp said the figure was equivalent to 1,100 calls a second and that it was committed to making the feature even better for its 1 billion users in the months to come. WhatsApp started full end-to-end encryption across its messaging app last April and some websites such as FoneArena reported that the company has started testing a video calling feature.

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97% global warming consensus paper surpasses half a million downloads

2016-06-23 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: In 2013, a team of citizen science volunteers who collaborate on the climate myth debunking website SkepticalScience.com published a paper finding a 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming in peer-reviewed research. Over the past 3 years, that paper has been downloaded more than 500,000 times. For perspective, thats 4 times more than the second-most downloaded paper in the Institute of Physics journals (which includes Environmental Research Letters, where the 97% consensus paper was...

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US giving $48 million to help Western farms handle drought

2016-06-23 02:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: The Obama administration is announcing $48 million in grants to help farmers and ranchers in the West conserve water and energy amid drought and climate change. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is scheduled to discuss the plan Thursday in Colorado. The Agriculture Department says the effort will include 76 projects in at least 11 states. The department says the program will include improving irrigation systems. The grants will come from both the Agriculture and Interior departments.

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