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Ending poverty hinges on tougher environmental goals: Study
2013-03-21 14:38:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Governments must impose radical limits on everything from water use to greenhouse gases if they want to have any chance of ending global poverty, a group of scientists said. States needed to tighten clean air laws, at least halve the amount of water drawn from river basins and start cutting some environmentally damaging pollution, all by 2030, they suggested. "The stable functioning of Earth systems - including the atmosphere, oceans, forests, waterways, biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles...
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Nations urged to combine environmental and development goals
2013-03-21 13:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Degradation of the natural world is undermining efforts to reduce poverty, warn scientists, who say the only chance of achieving global prosperity is for all countries to combine poverty and environmental targets. World leaders should set six goals around universal clean energy, an end to water and food shortages, thriving lives and livelihoods, and healthy and productive ecosystems, they say. Prof David Griggs, director of the Monash Sustainability Institute in Australia, argues in an article...
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Air travel is an environmental sore spot
2013-03-21 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Covering a global industry like automotive is air travel dependent. I won't go into the awful details, but my annual carbon footprint is alarming. British Airways estimates in-flight carbon dioxide emission of a 10th of a kilogram per passenger, per kilometre. It's more for short-haul flights. A 7-1/2 hour overseas flight means a passenger like yours truly can be responsible for kicking out about 700 kilograms of CO2 going one way. Aviation has been growing faster than any other source of greenhouse...
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Group opposing Asarco demolition wants more environmental testing...
2013-03-21 09:46:19| Waste Management - Topix.net
About 50 people walk along North Kansas to protest the planned April 13 demolition of the former ASARCO stacks Wednesday.
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BP accused of rewriting environmental record on Wikipedia
2013-03-21 01:23:24| CNET News.com
A British Petroleum representative allegedly rewrote 44 percent of the oil giant's Wikipedia page, including the environmental sections. Some Wikipedia editors are crying foul. [Read more]
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