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Climate change pushes farmers in India to the tipping point – in pictures
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 21st, 2013
Guardian: British artist and designer Gerry Judah was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. He returned to India with Christian Aid after more than 50 years to see how people are tackling the effects of global warming.
A series of works inspired by his trip can be seen in Christian Aid's Tipping Point exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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Climate change threatens Gulf monarchies’ survival
Posted by Deutsche Welle: None Given on May 21st, 2013
Deutsche Welle: Qatar-based author Mari Luomi says the Persian Gulf monarchies will have to change to be sustainable in the era of climate change. But reaping the benefits of the fossil fuel economy has blinded most of them to that.
DW: Why do you conclude that the Gulf monarchies have reached their limits of "natural sustainability."
Mari Luomi: The growing imbalance between current natural resource consumption and preserving the environment for the future has reached a tipping point. The states are starting...
United Kingdom: Marine Harvest agrees to limit pesticides and seal killings
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 21st, 2013
Guardian: One of the world's largest fish farm companies, Marine Harvest, has voluntarily agreed to much tougher limits on its pesticides use and seal killing by joining a strict new environment scheme.
Marine Harvest will join the Aquaculture Stewardship council, a new accreditation scheme championed by WWF, after coming under repeated attack for heavy use of toxic chemicals, seal-killing and major outbreaks of sea lice and salmon diseases.
The Norwegian-owned company, which grows 25% of all Scotland's...
Donors Will Flee Obama if Keystone Approved, Says Billionaire Activist
Posted by The Hill: None Given on May 21st, 2013
The Hill: Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer, who’s increasingly throwing his weight around in politics, said approving the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline would create political hurdles for President Obama’s second-term agenda and cost him the support of key donors.
Steyer, a major Democratic fundraiser, told Grist magazine that Keystone opponents have leverage to exert over Obama even though he’s free of having to run for reelection.
“If you look at the people who support Obama, and then you look...