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Ecuador's President Abandons No-Drilling Plan, Approves Oil Exploration In Amazon
2013-08-16 08:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: President Rafael Correa has given the all clear for rich countries to begin drilling for oil in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest on Thursday, abandoning an ambitious 2007 plan he proposed to stop oil exploration in a pristine preserve. Correa had sought $3.6 billion in contributions to maintain a moratorium on drilling in the remote Yasuni National Park, which was declared a biosphere reserve by the United Nations in 1989 and is home to two Indian tribes living in voluntary isolation. Environmentalist...
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Yasuni: Ecuador abandons plan to stave off Amazon drilling
2013-08-16 04:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has abandoned a unique and ambitious plan to persuade rich countries to pay his country not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest preserve. Environmentalists had hailed the initiative when Correa first proposed it in 2007, saying he was setting a precedent in the fight against global warming by reducing the high cost to poor countries of preserving the environment. "The world has failed us," Correa said in a nationally televised speech. He blamed...
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Amazon Silk Browser Gets a Makeover
2013-08-15 23:33:19| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Amazon has good news for Kindle Fire owners: the Silk Web browser is now faster and more responsive than ever.
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Brazil sends more inspectors to Amazon rainforest
2013-08-15 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Brazil's environment minister says the government has increased the number of its inspectors in the Amazon rainforest to help halt a rise in illegal deforestation. Izabella Teixeira said Thursday at a deforestation seminar that the number of government inspectors in the region was upped to combat a new tactic by loggers, who are stripping smaller areas that are more difficult to detect by satellite. She didn't say how many inspectors have been deployed since the beginning of the year. Teixeira...
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Amazon offers mobile developers cross-platform push notifications
2013-08-13 17:06:10| InfoWorld: Top News
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering a new service that aims to make it easier for developers to send push notifications to Android and iOS applications. Amazon pitches Simple Notification Service with Mobile Push as an easier way for developers to add notifications than previously has been possible. Using one API, developers can send notifications to iOS and Android-based devices, including Amazon's own Kindle Fire tablets.
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