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Drilling for Oil and Gas Found to Have Contaminated the Amazon
Posted by Softpedia: None Given on June 14th, 2014
Softpedia: Chiefly because of climate change and global warming, environmentalists do not hold the oil and gas industry very close at heart. Courtesy of a new study, greenheads are likely to criticize this industry even more than they have until now. Long story short, media reports say that, during this year's Goldschmidt geochemistry conference, it has been announced that drilling activities need be blamed for the fact that part of the Amazon is now contaminated. Thus, environmental chemist Antoni Rosell-Melé...
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We’re losing faith in global change as local causes boom
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 14th, 2014
Guardian: Localism is all in the interpretation. So to Eric Pickles, it's decentralising planning. In surfing culture, it's the right, assumed by local surfers, to chase non-locals off their wave breaks. And now environmental localism is beginning to mean something too. Something big. Might it even refresh the parts other green movements can't reach, and take them mainstream?
Certainly, the London venue where I hosted the Observer Ethical Awards last week was bursting with eco talent from grassroots organisations....
Illinois: Anti-fracking activists make call for action
Posted by Southern Maryland Newspapers: Becky Malkovich on June 14th, 2014
Southern Maryland Newspapers: Activists are calling for a statewide “day of action” Monday in support of renewable energy and against fracking.
The self-described “fracktivists” are asking people to take action to demand renewable sources of energy and say no to fracking by meeting with legislators, writing letters, hanging banners and educating the public on the issues.
Locally, a direct action is planned with a protest at the Marion office of state Rep. John Bradley. A news conference and one-hour protest begins at 11...
Deforestation leaves fish hungry
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 14th, 2014
BBC: Deforestation is reducing the amount of leaf litter falling into rivers and lakes, resulting in less food being available to fish, a study suggests.
Researchers found the amount of food available affected the size of young fish and influenced the number that went on to reach adulthood.
The team said the results illustrated a link between watershed protection and healthy freshwater fish populations.
The findings have been published in Nature Communications.
"We found fish that had almost...
Australians rally over future of Tasmania forest
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 14th, 2014
Agence France-Presse: Thousands of Australians rallied Saturday against the proposed logging of protected forests in rugged Tasmania ahead of a UNESCO World Heritage meeting where the issue will be discussed.
The conservative government has asked UNESCO to revoke its World Heritage listing for 74,000 hectares (183,000 acres) of forest, claiming it was not pristine, and open it up to the timber industry.
The annual World Heritage Committee meeting starts Sunday in Doha, with up to 5,000 people protesting the move...
Deep underground, water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink
Posted by Reuters: Will Dunham on June 14th, 2014
Reuters: If you want to find Earth's vast reservoirs of water, you may have to look beyond the obvious places like the oceans and polar ice caps.
Scientists on Friday said massive amounts of water appear to exist deep beneath the planet's surface, trapped in a rocky layer of the mantle at depths between 250 miles and 410 miles (410 km to 660 km).
But do not expect to quench your thirst down there. The water is not liquid - or any other familiar form like ice or vapor. It is locked inside the molecular...