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Court orders logging company to clean up pollution disaster in Chile wetlands
2014-01-17 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Chile is probably best known for its volcanoes, earthquakes and the formidable peaks of the Andes, but as a country that spans 4,300 km (2,670 miles) from top to bottom, it also boasts a huge variety of bird life. And, until recently, it was home to what was thought to be the largest population of black-necked swans (Cygnus melancoryphus) in South America. Not long ago, these swans, as well as 100 other species of rare or vulnerable bird species, could be seen nesting in the Carlos Anwandter Nature...
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Regional Disaster Preparedness Capabilities Report, Vol. 1, Issue 1
2014-01-15 20:41:42| PortlandOnline
The first issue of the REDCAP Report PDF Document, 2,787kbCategory: Program
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Al Gore says use of geo-engineering to beat off climate disaster is insane
2014-01-15 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Al Gore said on Wednesday it would be "insane, utterly mad and delusional in the extreme" to turn to geo-engineering projects to avoid a climate catastrophe. The UN climate panel, in the next edition of its blockbuster reports, will warn that governments might have to extract vast amounts of greenhouses gases from the air by 2100 to limit climate change, according to a draft copy of the report seen by Reuters. But the former vice president of the US said that searches for an instant solution,...
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Canada orders reinforced fuel trains after disaster
2014-01-10 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Canada said Friday new rail cars used to transport fuel would be reinforced in order to avoid a repeat of the devastating explosion in Quebec last year that left 47 people dead. Large swathes of the picturesque town of Lac-Megantic were reduced to rubble after a runaway freight train carrying fuel crashed and derailed in July last year. The structural integrity of the DOT 111 tank cars involved in the accident came under scrutiny following the accident, after it emerged the US Department of...
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Regional Disaster Preparedness Capabilities Report, Vol. 1, Issue III
2013-12-31 02:12:36| PortlandOnline
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