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Australia: Tree planting 'offset' allowing miners to destroy ecosystems
2016-03-17 02:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Planting trees on old mine sites can count as an offset, allowing miners to destroy native ecosystems elsewhere, despite documents showing government staff recommended against the move. The revelations appear in documents obtained under freedom of information laws by the NSW Nature Conservation Council and revealed by Fairfax Media. Staff in the Office of Environment and Heritage thought the expansion of what could count as an offset went too far, and was a political decision, rather than...
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FTSE 100 hit as Chinese data hits miners
2016-03-08 13:00:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The FTSE 100 falls as weak trade data from China sends mining shares reeling.
How do we ditch dirty coal power without sending miners to unemployment line?
2016-03-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The nation - in fact, the world - needs to wean itself from fossil fuels if it is to have any hope of managing climate change. Burning coal is particularly bad for the environment, pumping far higher quantities of global-warming compounds into the atmosphere than natural gas, oil or other carbon-based products do. So it's heartening that the U.S. has been using less coal to generate electricity in recent years. An unrelated drop in coal-fired steel production in China has also reduced the amount...
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Sami reindeer herders battle conservationists and miners to cling to Arctic culture
2016-02-20 18:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When Europes indigenous Arctic people want to find their reindeer in a snowstorm and temperatures of -30C, they turn to their 10,000 snowmobiles and an app that is also used by British sheep farmers. In seconds, the satellite tracking device linked to their phone tells them if the animals are on a frozen lake, up a mountain or, in the worst case, have fallen prey to wolves or lynx. So far, so simple, thanks to new technology. But when the Sami people of northern Norway want to complain about...
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17 Miners Stuck in Salt Mine Rescued
2016-01-22 15:20:49| Food - Topix.net
All 17 miners who were stuck hundreds of feet below the surface in an elevator at the deepest salt mine in the Western Hemisphere have been rescued. Cargill Inc. spokesman Mark Klein says the last two miners were raised to the surface by a crane around 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the mine in the central New York town of Lansing.
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