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Hillary Clinton pledges to boost renewables on public lands
2016-06-02 08:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Live: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has promised to increase the rollout of renewables on public lands. Writing in Californian newspaper Mercury News, Ms Clinton pledged to increase the amount of green energy generated on public lands and offshore waters by tenfold within a decade. She said: We must recognise that our public lands have always provided access to natural resources that have helped us grow as a nation. Now as we work to combat climate change and build America into the...
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Some evacuation orders lifted in Canada's scorched oil lands
2016-05-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Authorities in Canada's wildfire-ravaged energy heartland have lifted evacuation orders on Suncor Energy Inc (SU.TO) and Syncrude oil sites after rain and cold weather helped dampen the flames. Municipal authorities in the oil town of Fort McMurray lifted the mandatory evacuation orders on Suncor's base plant and Syncrude's Mildred Lake facility, as well as nearby camps that house oil workers, late on Friday. Suncor said on Facebook that a limited number of staff will be back at some of its...
How Nations Are Chipping Away at Their Protected Lands
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: How Nations Are Chipping Away at Their Protected Lands Winning protected status for key natural areas and habitat has long been seen as the gold standard of conservation. But these gains are increasingly being compromised as governments redraw park boundaries to accommodate mining, logging, and other development. Its the saddest truism in wildlife conservation: When politicians announce that they are setting aside precious habitat in perpetuity, what they really mean is until somebody...
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Nissan lands worlds largest electric taxi fleet deal; 110 new LEAF 30 kWh units to Madrid
2016-05-19 16:56:17| Green Car Congress
Forests re-grown on cleared lands in LatAm key for climate, land rights: study
2016-05-13 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Forests re-grown on lands that had been cleared for agriculture in Latin America could play a key role in trapping carbon from the atmosphere and mitigating climate change if they are managed properly, researchers said in a study published on Friday. Over the next 40 years, such second-growth forests have the potential to sequester greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to all fossil fuel and industrial emissions from Latin America in the past two decades, said the study by scientists at the University...
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