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Blast devastates refinery, sends ash raining down on area
2015-02-19 01:32:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
An explosion devastated part of a major refinery on Wednesday morning, raining down ash in the area and, experts say, likely helping to increase California gas prices, which have been creeping up in recent weeks. A huge smokestack flare - in which workers were burning off flammable product after the explosion - could be seen for miles around.
Brazil sugar output to fall as drought devastates crop
2014-10-22 09:19:54| Sugar Industry News
SAO PAULO: Drought will drive sugar production in Brazil's cane-rich center-south nearly 8 percent lower than last year, hammering the world's main supplier of sugar, commodities market analysts Datagro said.
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Climate change devastates Antarctic seabed ecosystems
2014-06-17 17:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change is decimating populations of tiny species that live on the seabed of the Antarctic shore, threatening ecosystem stability and life higher up the food chain, scientists have warned. In a paper published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, scientists describe how the warming of Antarctic waters over the last two decades has allowed icebergs to drift more freely, battering the seabed as they do. This has made it harder for most species to prosper on the seabed where most...
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Australia: Heatwave devastates flying fox colonies
2014-01-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Dead flying foxes have been falling from the sky in droves because of the heatwave sweeping south-east Queensland. Hundreds of thousands of the large bats may have died as temperatures soared to 43 degrees over the weekend, Bat Conservation and Rescue Queensland (BCRQ) says. In Ipswich, south-west of Brisbane, more than 1000 dead flying foxes had to be cleared from a single park on Saturday. The council has been issuing gloves and wheelie bins to residents and started daily rubbish collections...
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Orangutans fight survival as thirst for palm oil devastates rainforest
2013-12-15 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Even in the first light of dawn in the Tripa swamp forest of Sumatra it is clear that something is terribly wrong. Where there should be lush foliage stretching away towards the horizon, there are only the skeletons of trees. Smoke drifts across a scene of devastation. Tripa is part of the Leuser Ecosystem, one of the world's most ecologically important rainforests and once home to its densest population of Sumatran orangutans. As recently as 1990, there were 60,000 hectares of swamp forest...