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Confirmed: Tar Sands Toxic Liquid Waste Contaminating Local Waterways

2013-02-18 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: As tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C. yesterday to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, more evidence emerged that the public isnt getting the full story of the environmental impacts of tar sands. Media yesterday reported on an internal government memo revealing a Canadian government study on a tar sands tailings pond that found that toxic liquid ponds do leak toxic chemicals into the environment--despite repeated denials of officials. For...

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Drought Points Up Critical Role of Waterways

2013-01-18 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: When people think of the Mississippi River, they might have visions of Mark Twain and old steamboats. But few Americans understand the vast amounts of shipping traffic that still makes its way up and down the river, part of the worlds largest navigable inland waterway. As I write in The Times, a Midwestern drought has caused the dwindling of the mighty river in recent months. The phenomenon cannot necessarily be ascribed to climate change no individual weather event can be. Still, shifting...

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