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Climate change severe threat to marine turtles
2013-02-19 08:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Scientists have sounded the alarm over the mounting threat to marine turtle populations worldwide from climate change and coastal development. The scientists have made a strong pitch for protecting key nesting grounds, and areas that may be suitable for the purpose in the future, to ensure that the marine reptiles have a better chance of withstanding climate change. Turtles play a significant role in seed dispersal and ecology. They act as scavengers of the marine ecosystem, cleaning up a lot...
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40,000 People Reported at Climate Change Rally
2013-02-18 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo!: The environmental organization 350.org is reporting that more than 40,000 people attended the "Forward on Climate" rally in Washington to call for President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, comparing the march to the movement that elected Obama to office in the first place. Here are the details. * According to the post by 350.org communications director Jamie Henn, volunteers from around the country organized 130 buses to get people to the rally. Henn reported a large number of...
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Denver demonstration protests climate change and pipeline
2013-02-18 04:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: Issac Rivera, with fist in the air, and other protesters wore black and lay down in Civic Center to form a "human oil spill" during a rally Sunday. A few hundred people marched from the Auraria campus to the rally at Civic Center. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post) Twelve-year-old rapper/environmental activist Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez showed Sunday that small people can deliver big messages. Xiuhtezcatl -- the name is Aztec -- and his 10-year-old brother Izcuauhtli (also Aztec) belted...
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Activists Rally Against Climate Change in Downtown LA
2013-02-18 04:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KTLA: Hundreds of protesters marched on Los Angeles City Hall on Sunday as part of a nationwide demonstration designed to pressure President Obama into rejecting a Canadian pipeline that would bring oil into the United States. The local demonstration - led by environmentalist and actor Ed Begley Jr., Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) and L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar - was focused on rejecting TransCanada`s Keystone XL pipeline as a first step in taking action on climate change. Weve seen climate...
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Thousands gather for climate change rally in DC
2013-02-17 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: In what was billed as the largest climate rally in U.S. history, thousands of people marched past the White House on Sunday to urge President Obama to reject a controversial pipeline and take other steps to fight climate change. Organizers, including the Sierra Club, estimated that more than 35,000 people from 30-plus states -- some dressed as polar bears -- endured frigid temperatures to join the "Forward on Climate" rally, although the crowd size could not be confirmed. Their immediate target...
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