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Palm oil giant's impact in Indonesia worse than reported, says Greenpeace

2016-06-09 11:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: One of the worlds largest producers of palm oil has drained and planted on areas of peatland supposed to be protected by Indonesian law, claims a new report from Greenpeace, with levels of damage potentially worse than previously reported. The NGO says satellite images of Ketapang, west Kalimantan show drainage canals covering an area of peatland that the Malaysia-based company IOI had marked for restoration in a sustainability commitment in 2014. Draining peatland is the first step for developing...

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Fukushima: Worse Than a Disaster

2016-06-08 00:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CounterPunch: Disasters can be cleaned up. Naohiro Masuda, TEPCO Chief of Decommissioning at Fukushima Diiachi Nuclear Power Plant, finally publicly officially announced that 600 tons of hot molten core, or corium, is missing (Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Says 600 Tons of Melted Fuels is Missing, Epoch Times, May 24, 2016). Now what? According to Gregory Jaczko, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), it is not likely the fuel will ever be recovered: Nobody really knows where...

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Amphibians About Go Extinct? Amphibian Crisis is Worse

2016-05-25 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World News: As amphibian crisis persists across the United States, scientists are working continuously to come up with an emergency response to reverse their decline. However, a new research has confirmed that there is no simple solution to stop or overturn amphibian declines. Writing in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey said there is no "smoking gun" to shut down the direct cause of their crumbling population all at once, as the new study revealed that reasons for...

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Reminder: Things Have Gotten Much Worse Since An Inconvenient Truth

2016-05-24 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Gizmodo: In 2006, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth spread the idea of human-caused climate change far and wide in what is now considered a watershed moment for the science. But today, on the ten-year anniversary of the film's release, we've made little progress toward addressing the grave planetary concerns Gore raised. In fact, by practically every metric, things have gotten much worse. Over the past decade, humanity's climate-warming carbon emissions have risen steadily, from 8.3 billion tons in 2006...

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