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Drilling for Oil and Gas Found to Have Contaminated the Amazon
2014-06-14 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Chiefly because of climate change and global warming, environmentalists do not hold the oil and gas industry very close at heart. Courtesy of a new study, greenheads are likely to criticize this industry even more than they have until now. Long story short, media reports say that, during this year's Goldschmidt geochemistry conference, it has been announced that drilling activities need be blamed for the fact that part of the Amazon is now contaminated. Thus, environmental chemist Antoni Rosell-Melé...
Labor Department investigates 2 Amazon worker deaths
2014-06-14 06:32:42| IT Services - Topix.net
Two workers have died at Amazon.com fulfillment centers since December, according to the Department of Labor, adding to safety questions about the warehouses where packages are shipped to customers.
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Weekly Preview: New Amazon Smartphone Makes Its Debut
2014-06-14 00:31:47| Air Courier - Topix.net
Amazon is expected to announce plans for a new smartphone to compete against the likes of the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy.
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Oil drilling causes widespread contamination in the Amazon rainforest
2014-06-13 20:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Decades of oil extraction in the Western Amazon has caused widespread pollution, raising questions about the impact of a new oil boom in the region, according to a team of Spanish researchers presenting at a conference in California. Led by Antoni Rosell-Mele of the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, the team assembled a database of chemical analyses taken from 18 wastewater dumping sites from 10 different Amazon tributaries from 1983 to 2013. They looked at nine pollutants including lead, mercury...
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FSG launches second offshore seismic ship Amazon Conquerer
2014-06-13 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has successfully launched the second offshore seismic ship Amazon Conquerer, which is being built for WesternGeco.
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