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Utah, a Nature Lovers Haven, Is Plagued by Dirty Air
2013-02-23 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Utah has long been known as an outdoor lovers utopia. The skiing and mountain biking are among the best anywhere. And the snow-clotted mountains that tower around Salt Lake give this city a mythic quality during winter. But lately, the Wasatch Front, the corridor of cities and towns where most Utahans live, has acquired a reputation for a less enviable attribute: bad air. For the last few years, the area has been grappling with one of the nations most vexing pollution problems, where atmospheric...
United Kingdom: The battle for Combe Haven
2013-02-04 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Its a huge waste of public money and an environmental disaster A luta continua!: the struggle continues. After battling with security, bailiffs and the police, this remains the message of activist group Combe Haven Defenders. Combe Haven Defenders have been fighting the hugely controversial Bexhill-Hastings Link Road (BHLR) by literally attempting to stop it in its path. In spite of tree houses, tunnels and lock-ons to trees in one of the most beautiful areas of Sussex, their third and final...
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United Kingdom: Chainsaw massacre: felled trees after Combe Haven road protest eviction big picture
2013-02-01 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Campaigners spent weeks camped out at three sites in East Sussex to protest against a new 5.6km link road between Bexhill and Hastings. The Combe Haven Defenders group say that the case has national significance because it is one of more than a hundred major new roads planned across the country. On 30 January, the last protesters were evicted by police and bailiffs from the third and final remaining camp, many of whom were tens of feet high in trees. On the same day, the trees were felled by chainsaw...
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