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Landslide in Oso, Washington - Don't Blame Nature and Acts of God for Reckless Logging
2014-04-12 15:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The 300-acre landslide in Oso, Washington, which killed at least 30 people and destroyed the local community on March 22, 2014, reveals a consequence of a relatively unregulated and unseen industry: logging. Logging was not the sole cause of the disaster -- March was the wettest on record, a condition possibly exacerbated by climate change, and the geology of the area features soft soils -- but logging apparently played a major role. The media often do not investigate the reasons behind an event...
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BetterSweet Announces Joint Venture with Nature in Bid to Disrupt U.S. Beverage Industry
2014-04-08 17:40:44| Beverages - Topix.net
Vermont Certified Organic Maple Forests Provide Real Solution to War on Sugar with Subtly-Sweet, Great-Tasting and Good-For-You Drink Created by Local Trees )--Declaring that America needs a true home-grown and real alternative to sugar-laden drinks, Halo Beverages Inc. announced a Joint Venture Partnership today with Nature, to launch BetterSweet ... (more)
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Extracting carbon from nature can aid climate but will be costly-UN
2014-03-26 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A little-known technology that may be able to take the equivalent of China's greenhouse gas emissions out of the carbon cycle could be the radical policy shift needed to slow climate change this century, a draft U.N. report shows. Using the technology, power plants would burn biomass - wood, wood pellets, or plant waste like from sugar cane - to generate electricity while the carbon dioxide in the biomass is extracted, piped away and buried deep underground. Among techniques, a chemical process...
Crews work to clean up oil in Ohio nature preserve
2014-03-19 22:24:49| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Crews worked today to prevent the spread of more than 10,000 gallons of oil that leaked into a southwest Ohio nature preserve and clean up the mess, a task expected to take several days.
Major oil pipeline leaks more than 7,000 gallons of crude oil into Ohio nature preserve
2014-03-19 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The leak, which occurred on a line operated by Mid-Valley Pipeline Co, a division of Sunoco, was discovered at 8:20 p.m. EDT on Monday (0020 GMT Tuesday). The company shut the line, which helped reduce the pressure of the leaking oil, an EPA spokeswoman said, but it was unclear if oil was still spewing from the pipe. Some oil reached a wetland a mile away and on Tuesday, clean-up crews were preparing to vacuum the wetland, located 20 miles north of Cincinnati. The oil did not appear to have...
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