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Corruption Threat to Pacific Island Forests

2016-03-21 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: The vast rainforests of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean are crucial for environmental sustainability, survival of indigenous peoples and the wider goal of containing climate change. But forest degradation, driven primarily by excessive commercial logging, most of which is illegal, is a perpetual threat. PNG is now the world's top exporter of tropical timber, estimated at 3.8 million cubic metres in 2014. But an estimated 90 per cent of the formal trade...

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'A tipping point': record number of Americans see global warming as threat

2016-03-18 19:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A record number of Americans believe global warming will pose a threat to their way of life, new polling data shows, amid strengthening public acceptance that rising temperatures are being driven by human activity. I think a shift in public opinion and consciousness has been underway for several years now, Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, told the Guardian. A spokesman for 350 Action, the political arm of climate activist group 350.org, said meanwhile...

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Brexit a threat to Paris deal, says UK climate advisor

2016-03-18 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: A British vote to exit the European Union in June would represent a blow to the 2015 Paris climate deal, the countrys top climate advisor has warned. Former Conservative environment minister Lord Deben, who now chairs the UK Committee on Climate Change, made the comments during a talk hosted by the IPPR think tank in London. Brexit is a threat to Paris, said Deben, who is a vocal campaigner for Britain to maintain its links with Brussels. Im optimistic about the European Union because...

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End the threat of transit strikes

2016-03-16 18:30:29| Railroads - Topix.net

Some 150,000 New Jersey Transit commuters narrowly escaped a nightmare scenario when the rail agency came to an agreement last weekend with its unions, avoiding a strike that would have shut down the commuter line. The New York metropolitan region had faced the threat of a massive disruption because rail workers, unlike most local-government employees, are still allowed to walk off their jobs, thanks to a 90-year-old federal law.

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