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Drought forces some boats from shrinking Great Salt Lake in Utah

2014-08-05 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Drought forced an early end to the sailing season for some Utah enthusiasts on Monday as a huge crane lifted boats out of the Great Salt Lake State Park Marina, where officials say the water is at its lowest level for more than 50 years. "We've had a couple of tough winters here," said harbor master Dave Shearer, watching as the crane gingerly raised a 37-foot Ranger sailboat out of its slip then lowered it onto a trailer in the parking lot. "Some of the deep draft boats are having to pull...

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Activists say arrests made in protest at Utah tar sands mine project

2014-07-22 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Sheriff's deputies in Utah arrested nearly two dozen environmental protesters who chained themselves to fences and construction equipment on Monday at a tar sands mining project in the remote Book Cliffs mountains, an activist group said. The Tar Sands Resistance group said about 80 activists set up a "blockade" at the PR Springs mine to highlight what it said would be huge environmental damage if it goes ahead. "These projects do nothing but devastate the land and pollute the water and air,"...

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China's hungry cattle feasting on alfalfa grown on Utah farm

2014-07-06 04:18:17| Food - Topix.net

It's easy to find the largest Chinese-owned hay farm in the United States. It sits 189 miles east of Salt Lake City, on a stunningly scenic bend of the Green River.

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