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Fears for rare wildlife as oil 'catastrophe' strikes Sundarbans
2014-12-13 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Environmental authorities have been placed on high alert amid fears a major oil spill off India's east coast could threaten the habitats and lives of rare animals including dolphins, tigers and crocodiles. Around 77,000 gallons of oil spilled into the waters of the world-famous Sundarbans nature reserve in neighbouring Bangladesh on Tuesday after a collision between a tanker and another vessel. "This catastrophe is unprecedented in the Sundarbans and we don't know how to tackle this," Amir...
Nature does not negotiate: climate catastrophe is with us now!
2014-12-07 03:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: As Typhoon Hagupit hits the Philippines, one of the biggest peacetime evacuations in history has been launched to prevent a repeat of the massive loss of life which devastated communities when Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the same area just over a year ago. "One of the biggest evacuations in peacetime" strikes a sickening chord. Is this peacetime or are we at war with nature? I was about to head to Lima, when I got a call to come to the Philippines to support our office and its work around Typhoon...
'The Great Invisible' Views An Environmental Catastrophe From Many Sides
2014-10-30 21:46:18| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The Great Invisible , Margaret Brown's soft-spoken documentary about the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, recognizes that disasters - from shootings to extreme weather events - often beget entrenchment. Tragedies tend to drive us to our most defensive ideological corners, from which we can see little beyond more impassioned arguments for our own side.
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Humanity's 'inexorable' population growth is so rapid even global catastrophe wouldn't stop it
2014-10-27 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The global human population is locked in to an inexorable rise this century and will not be easily shifted, even by apocalyptic events such as a third world war or lethal pandemic, a study has found. There is no quick fix to the population time-bomb, because there are now so many people even unimaginable global disasters won't stop growth, scientists have concluded. Although measures designed to reduce human fertility in the parts of the world where the population growth is fastest will eventually...
UN climate change summit vital chance for the world to avoid catastrophe
2014-09-20 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This week, I will witness a key test of whether we will betray our children, grandchildren and future generations through a lack of ambition and will. I will be at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York on Thursday to listen to David Cameron, Barack Obama and more than 120 other political leaders outline how they intend to tackle the growing risks from climate change. The summit has been called by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to try to build high-level support...
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