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Biofuel project funded by UK leaves Africans without food

2013-09-01 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Thousands of people in one of Africas poorest countries are going hungry because of a biofuels land grab by a firm that receives funding from the Department for International Development, a charity claims. ActionAid accuses the Swiss company Addax Bioenergy of threatening livelihoods in rural communities in Sierra Leone, where it runs an extensive sugar-cane plantation. Addax, which will soon begin the first commercial shipping of biofuels from Africa to Europe, receives funding from a UK-based...

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Nintendo announces the 2DS, a slate-like 3DS without 3D

2013-08-28 19:42:59| Extremetech

Nintendo shocked the world today by unveiling its next iteration of the 3DS line: the 2DS. That's right, Nintendo is launching a new model of its flagship product on October 12th without any 3D support. Even more bizarre, it isn't even in the traditional clamshell design of other DS-branded devices.

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Hold the water: Some firms fracking without it

2013-08-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Houston Chronicle: The use of one precious fluid - water - to recover another - oil - chafes in dry country. Rivers and groundwater are receding in Texas for lack of rain and over-pumping just when the demand for water in new oil and gas fields is growing. Now one exploration and production company in San Antonio is fracturing its wells mostly without water, using gas liquids instead, in a practice that`s beginning to spread. Fracturing, or fracking, refers to using fluid under pressure to create fissures held...

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United Kingdom: The anger over fracking is real: but the truth is, we can't manage without gas

2013-08-25 03:37:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The battle for Balcombe is a distraction. It allows politicians and businesspeople who want to ditch the green agenda to depict environmentalists as mindless nihilists opposed to modernisation of Britain's energy infrastructure. It is also fair to ask why anti-frackers are willing to go down to Sussex in large numbers while the oil and gas explorers in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth are ignored. If climate change is the target of the protesters, there is a case for demonstrating against those who...

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