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Archaeologists race to save ancient Arctic sites from rising ocean

2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Canadian Press: Arctic archaeologists are fighting to learn what they can from one of the most extensive ancient sites in the North before climate change eats away centuries of history. "It's really happening in a big way," said Max Friesen, a University of Toronto archaeologist who's heading this week to a remote island near the Northwest Territories and Yukon. "We have no idea what we're missing." Friesen is in the middle of a multi-year program to try and preserve what's left of the cultural heritage of...

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Rising Oil Prices Encourage Shale Producers, Dissuade Investors

2016-06-12 18:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: The oil market just hit a yellow light. Crudes advance of more than 90 percent from a 12-year low earlier this year has U.S. shale producers starting to return to their drilling rigs, threatening to slow further gains. "The $50-to-$60 a barrel area is the sweet spot," said Mark Watkins, the Park City, Utah-based regional investment manager for The Private Client Group of U.S. Bank, which oversees $128 billion of assets. "You start to have producers come back at $50, but a lot of them come...

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OECD warns of rising premature deaths, costs of air pollution

2016-06-09 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Outdoor air pollution could cause 6 to 9 million premature deaths and represent an economic cost of around $2.6 trillion a year by 2060 unless action is taken, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a report released on Thursday. The OECD examined the economic consequences of air pollution and found that it could cost 1 percent of gross domestic product - or $2.6 trillion a year - by 2060. The economic cost would rise with a surge in related annual healthcare...

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