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The Environment: Latin Americas Battleground for Human Rights

2016-06-22 02:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: 2015 was the deadliest year on record for the killings of environmental activists around the world, according to a new Global Witness report. The report, On Dangerous Ground, found that in 2015, 185 people were killed defending the environment across 16 countries, a 59 percent increase from 2014. "The environment is becoming a new battleground for human rights," Global Witness' Campaign Leader for Environmental and Land Defenders Billy Kyte told IPS. "Many of these activists are being treated...

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As Americas Largest Reservoir Hits Record Low, a Dam Debate Returns

2016-06-18 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NY Mag: Lake Mead, Americas largest reservoir, reached a record low water level this week, breaking the previous record set a year ago. As of Friday night, the depth of the lake, which was formed after the Depression-era Hoover Dam was built on the Colorado River at the Nevada-Arizona border, had dropped to 1,074.33 feet, and the Desert Sun reports that officials expect the level to hit 1,071 feet by the end of June. The lakes continuing decline amid 16 years of drought may automatically trigger significant...

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How Climate Change Unleashed Humans Upon South Americas Megabeasts

2016-06-18 21:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Atlantic: South America was once a land of giants. Its plains and forests were home to elephant-sized ground sloths, mace-tailed armadillos the size of a car, and huge creatures that resembled humpless camels. Hunting them were a large subspecies of jaguar, sabre-toothed cats, and the gigantic short-faced bear, several times heavier than a grizzly. All of these giantsthe aptly named megafaunaare now gone. Why? In the 1930s, Junius Bird, an American archaeologist in the mold of Indiana Jones, found a clue...

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