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Climate Change May Be Easing Devastating 2012 Drought
2013-08-15 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Early this week, when Colorado State Climatologist Nolan Doesken toured an area of southeast Colorado hit hardest by the drought of 2012, he was greeted with a vast expanse of parched farmland that had turned into a moonscape with almost no vegetation. That area along the Arkansas River hadn't seen much rainfall in nearly three years, a long dry spell broken recently by a series of torrential downpours, leaving the moonscape even more surreal. "Some of that moonscape was standing water from...
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Greenwashing Frackings Devastating Climate Impact
2013-08-13 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Several years ago, Utah public health officials realized they had a big problem on their hands--one with national implications as other states were racing to increase oil and gas drilling. Smog levels in the states rural Uintah basin were rivaling those found in Los Angeles or Houston on their worst days. The culprit, an U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report concluded earlier this year: oil and gas operations. The industry was responsible for roughly 99 percent of the volatile organic...
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Recent Devastating Wildfires Could Be Result Of Climate Change
2013-08-02 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: The larger, more destructive wildfires devastating some regions of the western US could be fueled by climate change, according to new research appearing in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. These erratic fires are more difficult to contain, as well as more dangerous to people living in the area and likely to cause catastrophic damage, lead author and Michigan State University assistant professor of geography Lifeng Luo and his colleagues said. Furthermore, they predict the...
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Oil exploration could lead to 'devastating consequences' in Virunga Park
2013-08-01 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Soco International Plc is the only company still intending to exploit its licence in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the setting for the film Gorillas in the Mist. In a study published today, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) calls on Soco to follow Total, the French petro-giant, which promised in May to halt its search for oil inside the 87-year-old reserve. London-based Soco holds rights to explore an area twice the size of Kent, half of it inside the...
India says nearly 6,000 missing a month after devastating floods
2013-07-15 13:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India officially declared on Monday that nearly 6,000 people were missing a month after flash floods ravaged large parts of its northern state of Uttarakhand, but stopped short of saying they were presumed dead. The figure of 5,748, based on tallies of missing persons from around the country, was the first official estimate following weeks in which the numbers of dead and missing fluctuated wildly from a few hundred to several thousand. Their families will now be eligible for financial relief,...
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