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Moving photos show climate change destroying the nomadic way of life in Mongolia
2015-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: Just another sad casualty of environmental collapse: These before-and-after shots show how deserts are taking over the pastures where animals once grazed. Up to a third of Mongolians live as nomads, but that lifestyle is increasingly under threat. Rampant desertification is destroying the grassland where nomads graze their animals, meaning many are being forced to move to cities, where they don't belong. "Nomadic life has been central to traditional Mongolian culture throughout history," says...
Papal text says man betrays God by destroying the environment
2015-01-18 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis waded into the global debate on climate change and the environment on Sunday, saying in the text of a speech that man was destroying nature and betraying God's calling to be stewards of creation. Francis offered his thoughts about the environment and climate change for the second time in four days at a rally with young people at a Manila university on the last full day of a week-long Asian tour that has taken him to Sri Lanka and the Philippines. He did not read all of a speech prepared...
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Facebook's autoplay video feature is destroying cellphone bills
2014-09-03 19:38:35| Wireless - Topix.net
Smartphone users are at risk of maxing out their data plans if they don't change this default setting in the Facebook app, which otherwise will automatically start streaming videos in the News Feed window.
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Frackings untold health threat: How toxic contamination destroying lives
2014-08-02 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: If we`re going to talk about fracking, we can`t just talk about energy independence, or the economy, or the potential for natural gas to act as a "bridge fuel" to help solve the global warming crisis. We also need to talk about the effect that hydraulic fracturing is having on the communities where it`s taking place, and to ask whether that cost - to people`s health and property - is too high. The main barrier to that conversation, of course, is that it`s one the industry definitely doesn`t want...
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How Climate Change is Destroying Our National Parks
2014-07-12 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: America's national parks are being adversely affected by climate change, with temperatures becoming more extreme in recent years compared to the historical norms of the last century, a new study by the National Park Service (NPS) finds. "These changes will have implications for what visitors see and experience in national parks and will require new approaches to the protection of natural and historic resources within parks," the NPS says. America's national parks attract 275 million visitors a...
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