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Commodity boom extracting increasingly heavy toll on Amazon forests
2015-01-06 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A commodity boom has helped pull millions out of poverty across South America over the past decade. It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fuelling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile. Now, as prices for oil and other commodities slide, economists and environmental researchers warn that the loss of forest cover may be hastened, leading to new clashes as governments in the region try to maintain growth rates and...
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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...
United Kingdom: Osborne is fiddling while the Earth burns: extracting every drop of oil we can
2014-03-20 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The chancellor George Osborne is a dangerous man. A disciple of financial service deregulating and climate change denying ex-chancellor Lord Lawson, he delivered a budget statement on Wednesday as depressing as the Conservative Environment Networks recent Responsibility & Resilience pamphlet was encouraging. As we repeatedly explain, we hold no torch for a particular party, despite what our magazines name suggests. No, we are not the green wing of the blue Conservative party. The preservation...
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Nitro Petroleum Giant #2-21 Well Extracting Oil, Gas
2014-01-02 18:02:00| OGI
Well running for just two weeks, company says
Extracting heat from the tube London transport to heat homes
2013-11-21 01:00:00| Power Technology
London is to become one of the first cities in Europe to use its public transport underground system to heat local homes, a project that, if successful, could trigger a trend of similar energy saving initiatives in cities across Europe.
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