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Reward scientists working for human rights
2013-12-17 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Scientists should be urged to use their talents to do more to promote human rights globally, says a team from the AAAS. On the anniversary of philanthropist Alfred Nobel's death last week, the international chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), picked up its Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. The organisation was recognised both for its current, hazardous mission to destroy chemical weapons in Syria and also for 16 years of wider efforts to rid the...
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Scientists from Exeter university reveal new threat from acid seas
2013-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express ^ Echo: A research expedition to the Arctic by Westcountry scientists has revealed some of the effects of global warming on marine wildlife. The researchers, from Plymouth and Exeter universities, took part in the Catlin Arctic Survey, a unique collaboration between the worlds of science and exploration aimed at understanding climate change. They worked alongside polar explorers camped in winter conditions on the Arctic ice at temperatures of -40C, risking frost bitten fingers, in a bid to collect...
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Why Scientists are Concerned About Tree-Burning Power Plants
2013-12-12 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, 41 leading scientists sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calling on the agency to protect U.S. forests from the growing sucking sound created by biomass power plants. The scientists urged the agency to put in place a regulatory system that is both science-based and takes into account the key recommendations of the science panel the agency itself commissioned. As power plants look for alternatives to fossil fuels, some are turning...
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As Quakes Shake Oklahoma, Scientists Eye Oil and Gas Industry
2013-12-12 11:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Mary Catherine Sexton has been rattled enough. This fall her neighborhood in the northeastern part of this city has been shaken by dozens of minor earthquakes. We would just have little trembles all the time, she said. Even before a magnitude 4.5 quake on Saturday knocked objects off her walls and a stone from above her neighbors bay window, Ms. Sexton was on edge. People are fed up with the earthquakes, she said. Our kids are scared. Were scared. Oklahoma has never been known as earthquake...
Scientists Call For More Fracking Data Collection & Transparency
2013-12-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A group of scientists and other academics investigating the environmental, climate change and social impacts of oil and gas development, particularly hydraulic fracturing, are calling for both state and federal governments and the oil and gas industry to be more transparent and provide more data about the energy drilling and production processes. The scientists, each presenting at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco, said it is difficult to determine the effects of energy...
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