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Environmentalists call for stop to sugar-cane burning in Palm Beach County
2015-06-22 08:24:34| Sugar Industry News
Plumes of smoke that rain ash onPalm Beach County communities are igniting a renewed fight between environmentalists and the sugar industry.The Sierra Club on Friday called for sugar cane growers to stop the decades-old harvesting practice of burning cane fields that cover more than 300,000 acres of western Palm Beach County
Pope Francis stirring call to renew the face of the earth
2015-06-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: In Pope Francis church there are no comfortable pews. Rolled-up sleeves and shoulders to the wheel are the order of the day. After demanding that his Catholic Church strip itself of vanity, arrogance and pride and humbly serve the poorest, he has now challenged his 1.2 billion faithful especially those in Canada and other rich countries to take decisive action, here and now to arrest climate change before it overwhelms the planet. Never before has a pope issued such a sweeping call for...
Call for More Action on Global Food Security to Beat Hunger
2015-06-19 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - A United Nations’ target set in 2000 to reduce global hunger by a half by 2015 had almost been achieved.
On planet in distress, a papal call to action
2015-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Pope Francis has written the first papal encyclical focused solely on the environment, attempting to reframe care of the earth as a moral and spiritual concern, and not just a matter of politics, science and economics. In the document, Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home, he argues that the environment is in crisis cities to oceans, forests to farmland. He emphasizes that the poor are most affected by damage from what he describes as economic systems that favor the wealthy, and political...
US FAA probes close call incident at Chicago airport
2015-06-18 01:00:00| Airport Technology
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched an investigation into an incident involving near-collision of two commercial aircraft at Chicago's Midway International Airport.
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