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Africa is building a Wall of Trees
2016-09-10 06:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ventures: Africa faces a huge problem with desert encroachment. About two-thirds of the African continent consists of deserts or drylands. Every year in Africa, desertification swallows land the size of the Republic of Benin. Desert encroachment has drastically distorted the quality of life in Africa, resulting in nomadic movements, instability, reduction in productivity and restricted economic growth. The Great Green Wall initiative is a pan-African proposal to green the continent from west to east in...
This week in spirits & wine, featuring China's wine-production opportunity, Gruppo Campari's CEO talks to just-drinks and Brown-Forman's pile of problems
2016-09-09 17:05:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Here's a round-up of this week's top stories in the spirits & wine categories. We also have similar round-ups for beer & cider and soft drinks & water.
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Apache confirms significant new resource play in Texas: 75 Tcf gas, 3B barrels of oil
2016-09-09 15:55:23| Green Car Congress
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Ecuador begins drilling for oil in pristine corner of Amazon
2016-09-08 00:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Ecuador began drilling for oil on Wednesday near an Amazon nature reserve known as Yasuni, a site that President Rafael Correa had previously sought to protect from development and pollution under a pioneering conservation plan. Correa in 2007 asked wealthy countries to donate $3.6 billion to offset revenue lost by not drilling in the Yasuni National Park. But the initiative was scrapped in 2013 after it brought in less than 4 percent of the amount requested. Correa's government blamed the...
The number of coal-fired power plants under development saw a big hit in the first half of 2016
2016-09-07 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: According to a new report from CoalSwarms Global Coal Plant Tracker, the total amount of coal-fired generating capacity in pre-construction planning dropped from 1,090 gigawatts (GW) in January 2016 to 932 GW in July. Thats a reduction approximately the size of the entire coal-generating capacity of the E.U. The largest decreases come from from India and China, whose governments announced they would be (slowly) moving away from coal in the aftermath of last Decembers climate talks in Paris. In...
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