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Fracking poses 'significant' risk to humans and should be temporarily banned across EU
2015-06-20 22:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A major new scientific study has concluded that the controversial gas extraction technique known as fracking poses a significant risk to human health and British wildlife, and that an EU-wide moratorium should be implemented until widespread regulatory reform is undertaken. The damning report by the CHEM Trust, the British charity that investigates the harm chemicals cause humans and wildlife, highlights serious shortcomings in the UKs regulatory regime, which the report says will only get...
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Pope Francis: Humans Are Turning the Earth Into an Immense Pile of Filth
2015-06-18 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This is an excerpt from Pope Francis encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si. The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish. Industrial waste and chemical products utilized in cities and agricultural areas can lead to bio-accumulation in the organisms of the local population, even when levels of toxins in those places are low. Frequently no measures...
Republicans Can Only Deny Human's Influence On Climate Change For So Long
2015-05-10 07:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: The party of "no" has been extra vocal on the subject of climate change lately. They`ve budged only slightly in the past few years, going from stubbornly refusing to admit that climate change exists to begrudgingly admitting that it does, but that humans play no part in it. But progress is progress. Some Senate Republicans are now officially on the record as refusing the idea that humans are causing climate change after a measure that was rejected 50-49 along party lines. "Only in the halls...
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Millions U.S. Chickens Have Bird Flu. Are Humans At Risk?
2015-05-02 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Millions of chickens and turkeys have been killed in the Midwest this week in a desperate attempt to stop the spread of bird flu. On Friday afternoon, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad declared a state of emergency after four new poultry farms tested positive for the virus. The outbreak, which appears to be the deadliest for birds in United States history, has spread to 13 states and across the border into Canada. Humans do not seem to be at risk from this outbreak, but any avian flu has the potential...
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Universal Robots Presents UR3 at RoboUniverse - the World's Most Flexible, Lightweight Table-top Robot to Work Alongside Humans
2015-04-29 12:31:13| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
The Danish pioneer of collaborative robots has created a new, smaller robot for light assembly tasks and automated workbench scenarios. Odense, Denmark Industries worldwide have embraced the collaborative benefits of the user-friendly UR5 and UR10 robots that feature unrivaled performance vs. affordability and...
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