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Opinion: Feet where our heads should be: Are we going about EVs the wrong way round?
2016-07-08 17:56:02| Green Car Congress
Climate Change Claims a Lake, and a Way of Life
2016-07-07 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The water receded and the fish died. They surfaced by the tens of thousands, belly-up, and the stench drifted in the air for weeks. The birds that had fed on the fish had little choice but to abandon Lake Poopó, once Bolivias second-largest but now just a dry, salty expanse. Many of the Uru-Murato people, who had lived off its waters for generations, left as well, joining a new global march of refugees fleeing not war or persecution, but climate change. The lake was our mother and our father,...
A cheap, simple experiment just found a very effective way to slow deforestation
2016-07-07 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In a convincing new study conducted in Uganda and based on a program sponsored in part by its government, a team of researchers have found an effective and affordable way to combat deforestation in a country showing some of the fastest tree loss rates in the world. How? The program simply paid owners of forest land not to cut down their own trees for either agricultural purposes or to sell them for timber. The research provides a positive model for protecting a forest region that is a hub for...
How open rail data is changing the way passengers travel
2016-07-04 10:30:00| Railway Technology
For many years, there were only a limited number of ways to find out if a train was delayed, or where it was and wasnt calling. Now, open data is rewriting the rule book.
While Spotlight Was On Offshore Drilling, Fracking Quietly Made Its Way Into Our Oceans
2016-07-01 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: The Gulf of Mexico has been struggling with the pollution from offshore oil drilling for a long time, a struggle that was dramatically highlighted by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill six years ago. But now it has come to light that the oil industry is conducting offshore fracking in the Gulf, which is even more dangerous than conventional oil drilling, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. The group received copies of more than a thousand fracking permits from the Bureau of Ocean...
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