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Unemployed Electrician Wins Publishers Clearing House Prize
2014-12-18 20:05:56| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
An out-of-work electrician won $1 million from the Publishers Clearing House this week in Gresham, Wisconsin. Content Classification: Curated read more
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Clearing Rainforests Distorts Global Rainfall & Agriculture, Study Says
2014-12-18 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Clearing forests not only releases carbon into the atmosphere, it also triggers worldwide shifts in rainfall and temperatures that are just as potent as those caused by current carbon pollution and that pose great risk to future agricultural productivity, researchers report. Deforestation in South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa may alter growing conditions in agricultural areas as far away as the U.S. Midwest, Europe, and China, the study in Nature Climate Change finds. The researchers calculate...
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Huge swath of forest in Indonesian Borneo slated for clearing by 'sustainable' company
2014-12-10 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Enormous wood fiber concession appears in West Kalimantan, threatening critical habitat. Environmental groups cry foul, claiming impact assessments were not properly done before plantation company set up shop. A major wood fiber concession has moved ahead on developing a sizable chunk of forest in one of Indonesias most vulnerable provinces before a formal conservation assessment of the land could be completed, Greenomics Indonesia reports. The organization recently published a report detailing...
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APP can meet projected pulp demand without clearing forest
2014-09-05 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) won't need to clear additional forests to meet pulp requirements for current and forecast mill expansion, finds an independent assessment conducted by The Forest Trust (TFT) and Ata Marie. The results, which were disclosed this week in an update on APP's Forest Conservation Policy, show that APP has sufficient plantation resources to supply a massive new mill being built in OKI, South Sumatra. That project had raised concern among some environmental...
A clearing in the trees
2014-08-21 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: IN 1998 Fernando Henrique Cardoso, then Brazils president, said he would triple the area of the Amazonian forest set aside for posterity. At the time the ambition seemed vain: Brazil was losing 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 square miles) of forest a year. Over the next 15 years loggers, ranchers, environmentalists and indigenous tribes battled it out--often bloodily--in the worlds largest tropical forest. Yet all the while presidents were patiently patching together a jigsaw of national parks...
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