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UN appeals for Sahel aid as conflict, climate change take their toll

2014-02-04 14:40:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The United Nations appealed on Monday for more than $US2 billion ($2.28 billion) to feed and care for a record 20 million people across Africa's Sahel belt, but aid workers said they feared donor fatigue and a weak global recovery may prevent them from reaching the target. Conflicts in Mali, Nigeria, Sudan and Central African Republic have disrupted markets and caused food shortages across the savannah region, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned. The problems...

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Lavabit to have its day in federal appeals court

2014-01-28 13:29:28| InfoWorld: Top News

Lavabit, the private email service that shut down last year after a court order called for its private SSL (secure socket layer) keys, will make its case Tuesday before a U.S. federal appeals court.

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Federal appeals court may halt Shells plans to drill, baby, drill

2014-01-26 07:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Salon: A federal appeals court decision handed down this week may further complicate Royal Dutch Shells plans to drill in the Arctic this summer--plans that were already complicated by the fact that the oil giant had a disastrous Arctic outing in 2012, demonstrating that its difficult and dangerous to drill for oil in a place with extreme cold, turbulent seas, and no nearby disaster assistance. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that when the U.S. government...

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U.S. appeals court throws Arctic drilling into further doubt

2014-01-23 07:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Interior Department wrongly awarded offshore oil leases in the Chukchi Sea near Alaska in 2008 without considering the full range of environmental risks posed by drilling in the Arctic. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the on-going dispute - pitting environmental groups and Native Alaska tribes against the federal government and energy companies - back to U.S. District in Anchorage, Alaska. It was not immediately...

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