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Obama: Climate change biggest threat to U.S. national parks
2016-06-18 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama says climate change is the biggest threat to U.S. national parks. Obama says meadows are already drying out at Yosemite National Park in California, where he spoke Saturday after spending the night in the park with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha. He adds that a rabbit-like animal known as a pika is being forced further upslope in Yosemite to escape warming temperatures. Obama and his family are spending the weekend at Yosemite after touring an underground...
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Climate change and the threat to our cultural heritage
2016-06-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The timing was grimly appropriate. No sooner had the United Nations stressed the risk that climate change poses to world heritage sites than curators at the Louvre, in Paris, rushed to move 250,000 artworks to safety from flooding. Extreme weather had forced the closure of one of the worlds most famous museums a museum, whats more, that is at the heart of the Banks of the Seine world heritage site, which stretches from the Eiffel Tower to the Īle St Louis, and where the river rose 6m above its...
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'Threat map' aims to highlight worst of oil and gas air pollution
2016-06-17 14:05:35| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Environmentalists have launched a new mapping tool that allows people in the U.S. to see whether they live and work in areas at risk of harmful air pollution from nearby oil and gas activities. According to the map, which was published online Wednesday by the advocacy groups Earthworks and the Clean Air Task Force, a lot of people do: about 12.4 million people live within a half-mile of active oil and gas wells and related facilities that could release harmful pollutants such as benzene and formaldehyde...
Tempus to provide airborne threat simulation services to US Navy
2016-06-10 01:00:00| Naval Technology
US-based Tempus Applied Solutions' subsidiary has received a contract to provide airborne threat simulation services to the US Navy and its Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) function.
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This week in beer & cider, featuring the pressure on world beers, Lagunitas surfing Heineken wave and MegaBrew's threat to the US brewing scene
2016-06-03 16:29:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Here's a round-up of this week's top stories in the global beer & cider categories. We also have similar round-ups for soft drinks & bottled water and spirits & wine.
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