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Obama: Climate change deniers endangering national security
2015-05-20 20:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama in a speech on Wednesday cast climate change as a growing national security threat, accusing Republican skeptics of harming military readiness by denying its effects. Obama argued in his address to graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that rising sea levels and higher global temperatures endanger military bases and could force personnel to respond to conflicts around the world that are fueled by their effects. Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security,...
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New Mexico utility endangering public health with coal mine deal
2014-11-27 23:44:56| Energy - Topix.net
All across the country, the cost of coal is going up, while the price of clean energy is coming down. Coal is in decline, due in large part to the adverse public health impacts and climate consequences of mining and burning coal.
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Australia: PM 'recklessly endangering future'
2014-07-08 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Tony Abbott`s plan to axe the carbon price this week has come in for some withering criticism from his own side of politics, with a former head of the UK`s Conservative Party declaring it to be an "appalling" move that "recklessly" endangers the future. Lord Deben, who served in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher`s cabinet and is now chairman of the independent UK Committee on Climate Change, said the Abbott government "appears to be more concerned with advancing its own short-term political interests"...
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Palm oil expansion endangering rare frogs in Malaysia
2013-06-05 01:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Expansion of the palm oil industry in Malaysia is destroying key habitat for endangered frogs, putting them at greater risk, finds a new study published in the journal Conservation Biology. Over a two-year period, Aisyah Faruk of the Zoological Society of London and colleagues documented the impact of oil palm plantations on the peat swamp frog (Limnonectes malesianus), an amphibian that inhabits streams and swamps in lowland forest areas in Peninsular Malaysia. According to the researchers, the...
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