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Will Obama’s ‘No’ on Keystone Curtail Canada’s Oil Boom?
Posted by National Geographic: Wendy Koch on November 6th, 2015
National Geographic: President Barack Obama’s rejection of a controversial U.S.-Canadian oil pipeline signals U.S. leadership on climate change, but it’s not expected to stop the growth in Canada’s oil production —at least not anytime soon. Ending an eight-year saga, Obama announced Friday that his administration would not give Calgary-based TransCanada a U.S. permit to build the Keystone XL’s northern leg, which would carry heavy crude from Alberta’s oil sands into the U.S. Midwest. Obama said the pipeline would not...
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Amazon’s Wildlife Threatened By Hydropower Dams, Study Says
Posted by National Geographic: Wendy Koch on July 1st, 2015
National Geographic: As countries build more hydropower projects, new research warns that massive dams pose an extinction threat to mammals, birds and tortoises—at least in the Amazon. Brazil’s Balbina Dam has turned what was once undisturbed forest into an artificial archipelago of 3,546 islands where many vertebrates have disappeared, according to a study published Wednesday by England’s University of East Anglia. “We’re watching extinction unfold right in front of us,” says co-author Carlos Peres, a Brazilian professor...