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We Are Making Ebola Outbreaks Worse by Cutting Down Forests

2014-08-09 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Jones: In a relentless sweep across Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the largest outbreak of Ebola, a virus that causes dramatic internal bleeding and often a hasty death, has now claimed 467 lives, from 759 infections, since February this year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). With victims identified across more than 60 different locations, there's now a very real risk the outbreak will spread to even more countries, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which calls the epidemic...

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Fracking Makes Californias Drought Worse

2014-08-01 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: California is in the middle of an epic water shortage, with nearly 80 percent of the state experiencing extreme or exceptional drought conditions. Check out this animated map to get a sense of how extensively the drought has impacted the Golden State. Things have gotten so bad that California enlisted Lady Gaga to record a public service announcement. Given the situation, anti-fracking activists say its time for Governor Jerry Brown to put a stop to water-intensive fracking, claiming that...

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Geoengineering could make climate changes impacts worse

2014-08-01 12:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: A professor from Washington University, Seattle, has warned that climate engineering, or geoengineering, could have unknown consequences in decades to come and has said there needs to be a debate on the ethical issues around the practice. Speaking to the Guardian, Professor Stephen Gardiner said that geoengineering was currently unviable because the ethical issues around it need to be tackled first. He also warned that using this method could make climate change worse for future generations...

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Nintendo first-quarter operating loss worse than expected, outlook unchanged

2014-07-30 16:43:01| Electronics - Topix.net

Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd posted a worse-than-expected operating loss in the April-June quarter as it struggles with shrinking sales and dull demand for its Wii U console.

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