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Federal Court Halts Plans for Colorado Coal Mine Citing Climate Change Concerns
2014-07-03 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The federal coal leasing program has many flaws, such as cheating taxpayers out of billions of dollars, increasing mining that damages nearby land and water resources, and subsidizing the coal mining industrys efforts to boost exports. But the biggest problem is that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) pays almost no attention whatsoever to the very obvious fact that when burned, coal will release carbon pollution and contribute to climate change. However, thanks to an important recent court...
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Study Finds "Extreme" Climate Change in National Parks
2014-07-03 17:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Many national parks in the United States have already experienced "extreme" climate change over the past few decades, and the trend is likely to accelerate unless bold steps are taken, government scientists warn in a new study. Those changes are likely to disrupt visitor experiences and damage natural and cultural resources. "This report shows that climate change continues to be the most far-reaching and consequential challenge ever faced by our national parks," National Park Service Director...
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Climate change to substantially impact on coffee production this decade
2014-07-03 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Coffee cultivation could be significantly affected by the effects of climate change as soon as 2020, according to a new report. The warning comes amid estimates that coffee bean production must rise by almost 15% in the next five years to keep up with demand. The Coffee Barometer 2014 has been published to coincide with the Sustainable Coffee Conference on July 3 in Amsterdam. It was compiled by five NGOs Hivos, IUCN NL, Oxfam-Novib, Solidaridad and WWF and argues that coffee cultivation is...
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Climate change satellite launched
2014-07-03 08:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: A workhorse Delta 2 rocket roared to life and climbed away from California coast early Wednesday, boosting an environmental research satellite into orbit on a $468 million mission to precisely measure global carbon dioxide levels, a key factor in climate change. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 satellite was built to replace a virtually identical spacecraft that was destroyed in a 2009 launch failure aboard a different rocket. The delay and switch to the Delta 2 drove the cost up by nearly $200...
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Federal judge rejects mine proposal, cites coal's contribution climate change
2014-07-02 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: What`s the very best reason not to expand coal mining on public land? Coal is contributing to global warming. And a federal judge just blocked a proposed Colorado mine for that very reason, InsideClimateNews reports. People, it would appear, are finally starting to get it. In touting the potential economic benefits of the mine but ignoring fossil fuels` effect on climate change, ruled U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson, federal agencies failed to consider the complete cost of the project....
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