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Environmentalists battle study of New Jersey ocean bed
2014-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philedelphia Inquirer: Scientists led by a Rutgers University geologist say the Jersey Shore is a world-class place to study sea level rise, and they plan to bombard a swath of the seabed off Long Beach Island with sound waves for a month this summer to unlock the secrets of what has happened in the past - and what could happen next. But environmentalists, who might normally support research related to climate change, are aghast at the prospect, saying it might harm whales and other marine mammals, as well as New Jersey's...
Indonesia: Environmentalists lament light sentence in Tripa peatland destruction case
2014-05-10 15:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Environmental groups blasted a "lenient" sentence imposed on the director of a palm oil company that illegally destroyed an area of endangered peat forest in Indonesia's Aceh Province, reports the Jakarta Globe. In a decision on Wednesday, a court in Meulaboh district sentenced Subianto Rusyid, the director of PT Kalista Alam, to ten months imprisonment and a 150 million rupiah ($13,000) fine for his company's illegal destruction of a block of forest within the the Tripa peat swamp, an area off-limits...
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More Chinese than Europeans identify themselves as environmentalists
2014-05-07 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China's massive pollution problems have given rise to a new force of environmental campaigners, with double the number of Chinese identifying themselves as environmentalists compared to Europe and the US, new research finds. In Europe, financial crisis has knocked environmental policy down the political agenda and populist movements see environmentalism as a hobby of European elites. Meanwhile in the United States, the 11 September attacks of 2001 pushed energy security to the top of the political...
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In China, 64 percent say they are environmentalists - report
2014-05-06 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In China, the world's biggest polluter, about 64 percent of people identify themselves as environmentalists, more than double that of Europe and the United States, a report published on Wednesday showed. The survey by Dutch research agency Motivaction said in China, where public anger has mounted over hazardous levels of pollution in towns and cities, environmentalists had a greater sense of urgency about action needed to tackle the problem than Western counterparts, where the financial crisis...
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Brazil's 'chainsaw queen' takes on environmentalists
2014-05-05 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Outside the political hothouse of Brasilia, there are probably few who can name the head of Brazil's powerful agricultural lobby, yet the woman in question, Kátia Abreu, is rapidly becoming the country's most interesting, important and dangerous politician. The senator and rancher from Goiás was an influential force in the weakening of Brazil's forest code blamed by many for the recent rise in Amazon deforestation. Her support in parliament and in an acerbic newspaper column for more roads...
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