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Climate change: how businesses can deal America's most divisive issue
2014-06-12 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Children in the US are traumatized by a school shooting roughly every week. Radical religion-fueled vigilantes have bombed abortion clinics and stalked and killed the doctors who perform them. But it's not gun rights or abortion that has Democrats and Republicans most at odds today it's the science of climate change. This is sort of an ideal wedge issue, and its been exploited that way, said Lawrence Hamilton, a University of New Hampshire sociology professor who specializes in the study...
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UPM Raflatac Americas announces two new VPs
2014-06-12 07:00:00| Label and Narrow Web Breaking News
Mark Pollard was recent appointed senior vice president and Kevin Foos has joined the company as vice president, sales.
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New Report Analyzes Tar Sands Threat to Americas Migratory Birds
2014-06-11 21:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Tar sands mining in the heart of Canada`s boreal forest is putting millions of America`s migratory birds in jeopardy and has already resulted in hundred of thousands of fatalities, according to a new report released today by the National Wildlife Federation and Natural Resources Council of Maine. An area approximately the size of Florida is being destroyed by tar sands operations: huge open-pit mines, toxic waste tailings ponds, extraction wells, noisy compressor stations, refineries and networks...
The Americas: Chile: Patagonia Dams Rejected
2014-06-11 04:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A government commission rejected an $8 billion proposal to dam Patagonian rivers to meet growing energy demands, handing a victory to environmentalists who praised the ruling on Tuesday. The commission, including the ministers of agriculture, energy, mining, economy and health, voted unanimously to reject the HidroAysén plan, which would have tamed two of the worlds wildest rivers, the Baker and Pascua, and built more than 1,000 miles of power lines to supply energy to central Chile. Patricio Rodrigo,...
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Latin Americas Forests Need Laws & Much More
2014-06-10 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Latin America's parliaments have failed to protect the forests and to guarantee their sustainable use, despite the fact that a number of countries have laws on forests, legislators from the region said at a global summit in the Mexican capital. There are problems in areas such as respect for the rights of local communities, budget allocations for the protection of forests, land tenure guarantees, forest floor carbon ownership, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from sustainable...
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