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Potential of best practice to reduce impacts from oil and gas projects in the Amazon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 4th, 2013
ScienceDaily: Hydrocarbon exploration and production continues to press into the most remote corners of the western Amazon, one of the most biologically and culturally diverse zones on Earth. A new best practice framework that combines technical engineering criteria with ecological and social concerns could reduce the negative environmental impacts of such development, according to research published May 1 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Matt Finer from the Center for International Environmental Law and...
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Southern California coast wildfire threatens 4,000 homes
Posted by Reuters: Alex Dobuzinskis on May 4th, 2013
Reuters: A fierce, wind-whipped wildfire spread on Friday along the California coast northwest of Los Angeles, threatening 4,000 homes and a military base as residents were evacuated ahead of the flames and a university campus was closed.
More than 950 firefighters had built containment lines by late afternoon around about 20 percent of the inferno, which has blackened 18,000 acres of dry, dense brush and chaparral since erupting on Thursday morning. More firefighters were said to be on the way.
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