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A Climate Change Activist Could Be Director on Exxon Board
2016-05-25 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fortune: Voters at Exxon Mobils XOM 0.66% annual meeting on Wednesday approved a measure to let minority shareholders nominate outsiders for seats on the companys board, meaning a climate activist could eventually become a director at the oil giant. The so-called proxy access measure, which passed last year at fellow U.S. major Chevron CVX 1.58% , was the only one of 11 shareholder proposals related to climate change to pass at annual meetings held on Wednesday by both companies. This years meetings...
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Fracking: Ministers 'Sitting On' Climate Change Report On Shale Industry
2016-05-25 14:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Ministers have been accused of 'sitting on' a long-awaited report on fracking and climate change in a bid to help the oil industry. HuffPost UK has learned that the independent Climate Change Committee's (CCC) study of the environmental impact of the shale gas technology has still not been published despite a legal requirement to do so. Protestors were furious this week when North Yorkshire County Council made the landmark decision to approve Third Energy's application to frack on a site near...
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Wildfires, Climate Change And Boreal Forests
2016-05-25 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Diane Rehm Show: Since the beginning of May, a massive, out-of-control fire has been raging in boreal forest lands in Alberta, Canada. The fire forced the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray and halted oil sands production. Scientists say climate change has contributed to the growing number and severity of wildfires in the worlds boreal forests. Hot, dry weather has lengthened fire seasons and created ideal conditions for wildfires. The fires in turn increase emissions of greenhouse gases....
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Climate Change Could Be Fuelled By Cattle Drugs
2016-05-25 12:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quadrangle: Working with fellow researchers in Finland, Hammer compared the dung of livestock that were given tetracycline with those of cattle that were not given the antibiotic. Overall, the researchers found that antibiotics upped the methane footprint of dung by an average of 80 percent over poo from cattle that weren't fed drugs. Now, the team said, it plans to go and conduct further studies to better quantify the contribution of agricultural antibiotic use to climate change. Specifically, the global...
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Climate Change, Global Health Intimately Linked, UN Official Stresses
2016-05-24 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Global health hinges on drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a chief mover in the field of climate change told delegates Tuesday at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, praised the groundbreaking Paris Climate Change Agreement signed by 177 countries and likely to come into force in the next year or two. She says the deal is promising for both the climate and global health. "In...
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