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Ecuador begins drilling for oil in pristine corner of Amazon
2016-09-08 00:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Ecuador began drilling for oil on Wednesday near an Amazon nature reserve known as Yasuni, a site that President Rafael Correa had previously sought to protect from development and pollution under a pioneering conservation plan. Correa in 2007 asked wealthy countries to donate $3.6 billion to offset revenue lost by not drilling in the Yasuni National Park. But the initiative was scrapped in 2013 after it brought in less than 4 percent of the amount requested. Correa's government blamed the...
Even in pristine national parks, the air's not clear
2016-06-15 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Smithsonian.com: You just may want to join a ranger-led hike in Southwest Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. You'll see a spot where the scrubby pinyon-juniper forest drops off. It falls into a sandstone chasm. It reveals a maze of 800-year-old stone dwellings. They are wedged beneath an overhang in the canyon wall. They're well preserved. It's easy to imagine you've stepped back in time. And that nothing has changed in this high desert landscape since the Ancestral Puebloans built these chambers. They were created...
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Severe coral bleaching worsens in pristine parts Great Barrier Reef
2016-03-14 06:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Damage to parts of the Great Barrier Reef has worsened, leading authorities to raise the alert to the second-highest level, indicating severe local coral bleaching. The bleaching is worst in the most pristine and remote parts of the reef north of Cairns, according to Terry Hughes, convenor of the National Coral Taskforce. Its the jewel in the crown of the Great Barrier Reef and its now getting a quite a serious impact from this bleaching event, he said. The northern reefs are bleaching quite...
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Controversial Ecuador oil deal lets China stake an $80 million claim to pristine Amazon rainforest
2016-01-30 06:42:55| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, welcomes Paraguay President's Horacio Cartes during the IV Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, in Quito on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. Andes Petroleum Ecuador, a consortium of two Chinese state-owned firms - China National Petroleum Corp. and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. - on Wednesday purchased the rights to explore two oil blocks in the Amazon that cover an area of 500,000 acres.
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How Obama let big oil drill in the pristine Alaska wilderness
2015-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: From his seat in the small plane flying over the largest remaining swath of American wilderness, Bruce Babbitt thought he could envision the legacy of one of his proudest achievements as Interior secretary in the Clinton administration. Babbitt was returning in the summer of 2013 from four sunlit nights in Alaska's western Arctic, where at one point his camp was nearly overrun by a herd of caribou that split around the tents at the last minute. Now, below him, Babbitt saw an oil field-one carefully...