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Some Antarctic glaciers reached tipping point in 2009
2015-05-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: THE FIRST SIGNS Antarctic glaciers have reached some kind of melting 'tipping point' have been noticed by scientists from Europe. The group of eight scientists, led by Dr Bert Wouters from the University of Bristol used sophisticated satellite measurements of the Antarctic glaciers that empty into the Bellinghausen Sea, on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula which reaches up almost to South America. Glaciers are in effect, frozen rivers of snowpack, moving incrementally towards the ocean. These...
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Bear Head LNG gets environment approval for LNG export facility in Point Tupper, Canada
2015-05-22 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Bear Head LNG, a unit of Australia based Liquefied Natural Gas has secured approval from Nova Scotia Department of Environment of Canada to build an eight mtpa LNG export facility in Point Tupper.
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Sonoma County Compost Operation Now at Pivotal Point
2015-05-21 23:22:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/">The Press Democrat</a> Supporters of the imperiled Sonoma Compost Company are expected to turn out in force Wednesday for a decision that they say could spell the end of Sonoma Countys primary composting facility, located atop the county landfill west of Cotati. read more
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COLUMN-Shell-BG deal may be end point rather than harbinger: Russell
2015-05-20 06:30:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
There is a widespread assumption that weak commodity prices are likely to spark a wave of merger and acquisition activity as stronger companies seek to buy assets on the cheap. The $70 billion buyout of BG Plc by larger rival Royal Dutch Shell is generally viewed by investors and analysts as the first big deal in a likely series of major mergers and acquisitions in the resource sector.
Ma Jun: China has reached its environmental tipping point
2015-05-19 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It was almost 20 years ago that Ma Jun sat and watched the rainbow-coloured River Fen, in Shanxi province. As he turned to the skies in this coal and industrial heartland of north China he could see dozens of chimneys bellowing out their fumes. He had been sent to the province on an assignment while working as a researcher for a foreign journalist in the late 1990s. The story then was about family planning and its impact on local communities, but it was the devastating pollution he witnessed that...
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