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Obama Protects Alaska's Bristol Bay From Oil and Gas Development
2014-12-17 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: President Obama yesterday announced protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska, one of the most productive fishing grounds in the nation, from future oil and gas development. The president's action is expected to benefit commercial fishermen and Native Alaskans and boost conservation efforts in the region, which is roughly the size of Florida. Noting that Bristol Bay is the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery and the source of 40 percent of U.S. wild-caught seafood a catch worth $2 billion annually...
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Obama Indefinitely Bans Drilling in Alaskan Bay
2014-12-17 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama on Tuesday again used his executive authority to enact an environmental priority as he indefinitely barred oil and gas exploration of Alaskas picturesque Bristol Bay to protect some of the nations most productive commercial fisheries. Mr. Obama first put the ecologically sensitive area of the Bering Sea home to an important population of whales, seals and sea lions off limits to oil rigs in 2010, but that restriction was set to expire in 2017, several months after he leaves...
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Obama becomes the first US president to write a computer program
2014-12-09 19:41:39| Extremetech
President Barack Obama, to kick off the annual Computer Science Education Week, has become the first US president (at least as far as we know) to write a computer program. While this might not seem like a big deal, this will be seen as a glowing endorsement for the code literacy movement -- a campaign that, for the last couple of years, has been extolling the virtues of teaching kids how to program.
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Obama: Keystone XL contribute disastrous climate change
2014-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama spoke in dismissive terms of the Keystone XL pipeline Monday during an interview on "The Colbert Report Monday, saying its modest benefits need to be weighed against its contribution to climate change, "which could be disastrous." During an interview taped at George Washington University, the president did not explicitly say whether he would grant or deny a permit to the controversial project that would transport heavy crude from Hardisty, Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast. But he...
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Fuel to the fire? Fuel exports soar under Obama
2014-12-08 10:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Solar panels glisten from every thatched hut on this crowded island, one of the largest in this remote chain off the Panamanian coast. But the tiny emblems of green energy offer no hope against climate change. They have helped the island's Guna people reduce what was already a minuscule carbon footprint. The Guna cook with clean-burning gas. They use a small amount of diesel fuel to power fishing boats and a generator that lights bare bulbs dangling above dirt floors after sunset. They own one...
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