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South Dakota Tribes not alone in KXL flight
2014-04-10 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: President Obama is expected to make a decision on the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline the coming months. If approved, it would carry tar sands from Canada, through South Dakota, to the Texas Gulf Coast. On one side, the president faces pressure from political and business interests - both domestic and abroad - to get the pipeline built. Then, there's the opposition. South Dakota's Tribes have been some of project's most vocal - and visible - dissenters. A camp now sits near the proposed KXL...
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Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect Amazon
2013-12-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads have spread their tentacles and ranchers have expanded their grazing, all is brown. Beginning in the early 1980s, these photos from space lost more and more green, so that by 2004 the destruction seemed unstoppable. Brazil's deforestation rate had reached an alarming 27,000 square kilometers (nearly 17,000 square miles) per year. But stop it did-not everywhere, but at the borders of what appears from space...
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Panama rainforest tribes settle dispute over UN REDD scheme
2013-12-15 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Panamas government has resolved a bitter dispute over the alleged violation of indigenous peoples human rights, reviving a forest preservation scheme that was forcibly suspended earlier this year. The country`s US$5.8 million scheme to protect its forests can now resume, safeguarding one of the nation`s most valuable assets, which have steadily declined over the century. In 2010, Panama`s rainforests covered approximately 45% of the country, or 3,364,591 hectares, down from 70% cover in 1947....
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Papua New Guinea: Urgent: Papua New Guinea Tribes Under Threat from Conflict Palm Oil
2013-11-11 23:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: The Indigenous communities of Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea are engaged in a high stakes battle to defend their land and culture from the threat of Conflict Palm Oil expansion and they have a quick and easy request for help right now. Much of RANs forest team is currently in Medan, Sumatra for the annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and we are honored to be hosting Adelbert Gangai and Lester Seri, community leaders who have traveled from their home in Papua New...
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8 tribes that are way ahead of climate-adaptation curve
2013-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Country Today: Much has been made of the need to develop climate-change-adaptation plans, especially in light of increasingly alarming findings about how swiftly the environment that sustains life as we know it is deteriorating, and how the changes compound one another to quicken the pace overall. Studies, and numerous climate models, and the re-analysis of said studies and climate models, all point to humankind as the main driver of these changes. In all these dire pronouncements and warnings there is one bright...
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