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Fracking sand mines credited rising, dropping property values
2014-04-16 00:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Great Lakes Echo: Perry Schmitt describes himself as pro-mining but blames the frac sand mine across the highway from his home for driving down the asking price by more than $25,000, to $189,000. His neighbors made out better. Kari Curran and her husband sold 130 acres for $1.5 million to a company affiliated with Unimin Mining Corp., operator of the mine. The property was previously valued at about $225,000. It was kind of bittersweet, Curran said. That was the house we raised our kids in. In the three years since...
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Congo Basin Deforestation Contributes Rising Regional Temperatures
2014-04-15 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: As global temperatures are expected to rise by 2050, deforestation in the Congo Basin could exacerbate regional temperature extremes by a factor of half, according to new research. Current models predict that by 2050, Central Africa will be an average of 1.4 degrees Celsius hotter than it is today as a result of global greenhouse gas emissions, and deforestation will add 0.7 degrees Celsius to that figure, according to a study by University of Leuven in Belgium. Deforestation in the Congo Basin...
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Canada: Rising Prices Natural Gas Put Pressure Oil Sands Producers
2014-04-15 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Glboe and Mail: Oil sands companies, which have benefited from years of low natural gas prices, are once again facing rising costs as the commodity they need to fuel much of their operations becomes more expensive. Increasing prices for natural gas hit hardest at projects that use steam to soften oil-rich bitumen deposits to the point where the bitumen can drain into wells from which it can be pumped to the surface. Natural gas is an unavoidable expense in these projects, because it is needed to heat water to...
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Entire marine food chain at risk from rising CO2 levels in water
2014-04-13 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Escalating carbon dioxide emissions will cause fish to lose their fear of predators, potentially damaging the entire marine food chain, joint Australian and US research has found. A study by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, James Cook University and the Georgia Institute of Technology found the behavior of fish would be seriously affected by greater exposure to CO2. Researchers studied the behavior of coral reef fish at naturally occurring CO2 vents in Milne Bay, in eastern Papua...
Climate panel warns emissions rising, blurs reason
2014-04-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The U.N.'s expert panel on climate change on Sunday highlighted the disconnect between international goals to fight global warming and what is being done to attain them. Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases must drop by 40-70 percent by 2050 to keep the global temperature rise below the 2-degree C (3.6-degree F) cap set in U.N. climate talks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said. The opposite is happening now. On average global emissions rose by 2.2 percent - or...
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