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Malaysian dam project opposed by tribes gets green light: report
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 16th, 2015
Agence France-Presse: Construction of a Malaysian dam that will flood a rainforested area half the size of Singapore and displace 20,000 tribespeople was given the green light Saturday by the state government, local media reported.
"The construction will commence as soon as possible," Adenan Satem, chief minister of the state of Sarawak on Borneo island, was quoted by The Star as saying.
The announcement will be a major disappointment for indigenous groups who have staged increasing demonstrations and road blockades...
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Bee deaths are getting worse, and no one knows why
Posted by Blue and Green: None Given on May 16th, 2015
Blue and Green: It’s called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). A bustling beehive that seems healthy will quickly turn into a ghost town. A live queen may be left behind, or even a few young bees, but little else. The hive simply vanishes.
This article was written by Joshua O`Connor and first published on Timeline.com. Get Timeline App.
Hive deaths have occurred for centuries but became a huge problem in America a decade ago. You need bees to pollinate some food crops or they won’t grow. Beehive numbers have...
Rulings require feds to consider carbon impact of coal mines
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 16th, 2015
Associated Press: Beset by power plant closures, growing regulatory scrutiny and proposed changes in how they pay royalties, coal mines are facing a new obstacle -- a review of how coal extracted and burned will impact the air and global warming.
Under a series of rulings by U.S. judges in Denver over the last year, federal agencies that approve mining projects have been told to take into account coal's indirect environmental impact along with traditional concerns about mine dust and equipment emissions.
The...
Canada reneges on emissions targets as tar sands production takes toll
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 16th, 2015
Guardian: Canada has retreated on past promises to fight climate change, setting out lower targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions than any other industralised country so far ahead of a critical conference in Paris.
The announcement was a setback to efforts to reach a deal in the French capital that would limit warming to 2C (3.6F), the threshold for dangerous climate change.
Under the announcement, Canada committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.
That is a far...
Poisoning blamed in part for killing migrating snow geese in Idaho
Posted by Reuters: Laura Zuckerman on May 16th, 2015
Reuters: A poison used on cropland to kill rodents also killed at least a handful of more than 2,000 snow geese that fell dead from the sky in Idaho while migrating to nesting grounds on the coast of Alaska, state wildlife officials said on Friday. The carcasses of the snow geese were found in March in eastern Idaho, where dozens of state Department of Fish and Game workers and volunteers retrieved and incinerated most of the dead birds to avoid spreading what biologists believed to be avian cholera. But...
Canada: Pledge Sent to U.N. to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 16th, 2015
Associated Press: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government said Friday that Canada would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The government said it had formally submitted its target to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in advance of a major climate change conference in Paris in December. The United States, Japan and the European Union have already committed to relatively similar reductions over the next 10 to 15 years. Canada possesses the world’s third-largest...