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Methane leaks across US pose a much greater threat than Aliso Canyon
2016-03-02 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When Stephen Conley, an atmospheric scientist and pilot, saw an emissions indicator skyrocket in his Mooney TLS prop plane, he knew he had found a significant methane leak. His gas-detecting Picarro analyzer indicated he was flying through a plume of gas escaping at 900kg per hour. The colorless, odorless gas was enough to cover a football field to a height of 20 feet in a single day. But this flight wasnt over the highly publicized Aliso Canyon in Los Angeles; Conley was circling the Bakken Shale,...
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March against coal plant threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest
2016-03-02 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands of Bangladeshis will march from the countrys capital, Dhaka, to the worlds biggest mangrove forest next week in protest at plans to build two coal-power plants on the edge of the World Heritage-listed forest. The organisers of the so-called long march on 10 March hope to persuade the Bangladeshi government to drop its backing for construction of the plants near the Sundarbans, an area of rice paddies, shrimp farms and vast mangrove forests. No sensible person will deny that there...
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US Leadership In Biomedical Innovation Under Threat As Populists Attack Industry And Libertarians Attack Government, ITIF Finds In New Policy Analysis
2016-03-02 05:51:39| drugdiscoveryonline Home Page
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) today reported that the U.S. system for discovering and developing new medicines—long the world’s most effective and competitive—is under increasing threat as the populist left and libertarian right undercut bipartisan support for federal investments in scientific research and for intellectual property protections and a pricing system that gives private industry strong incentive to innovate
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DiCaprio warns of climate threat in Oscars speech
2016-02-29 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Leonardo DiCaprio used his Oscar winning speech to urge world leaders to stop procrastinating and take a tougher line on climate change. Awarded Best Actor for his performance in The Revenant, DiCaprio spent two minutes thanking friends and colleagues before delivering an impassioned call to arms. Making The Revenant was about mans relationship to the natural world, a world we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history, he said. Climate change is real, it is...
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Controversy as RSPB builds 100m wind turbine despite deadly threat to birds
2016-02-29 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has completed construction of a 100 metre wind turbine at its headquarters despite warnings they are a deadly danger to some birds and bats. The turbine will save an estimated 800 tonnes of carbon emissions a year as it generates the equivalent of half the electricity the RSPB uses across its 127 sites. Critics of the technology warn turbines pose a threat to birds, particularly rare species which are already suffering from low numbers or migratory...
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