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The wages of fear: The harrowing plight of the ship breakers of Bangladesh - one of the most dangerous jobs in the world
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9 years ago
The sad beauty of these incredible images cast a light on the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, where workers face death and injury from accidents and environmental hazards for just a few...
Ready to blow: Fears that sixty tonne blue whale carcass washed up on beach of tiny Newfoundland village could EXPLODE at any moment
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9 years ago
Carcass is rotting along the shoreline of a town on Canada's east coast Methane gas caused by decomposition could cause the animal to burst Emitting powerful stench that is spreading...
BP Strikes Again: Broken pipe sprays oily plume across snowy tundra at Prudhoe Bay
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9 years ago
Environmental officers with the state of Alaska are investigating an oil spill at Prudhoe Bay, after an unknown quantity of natural gas, crude oil and water escaped from a flow line operated...
Is Putin Now Reaching For Alaska?: Are there confrontations ahead in the battle over Arctic oil?
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9 years ago
Putin arms Arctic drillers on a meeting between Putin and his top national security aides. It says Putin highlighted the need for an enhanced security presence in Russian Arctic territories...
Heads up, friends. The leaves of the heliotrope plant can kill your pet. Please be ware.
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9 years ago
This was posted on my FB page and I thought others might need to see it as well. We got the biopsy report back and with great sorrow I must share this....Our darling girl died from the toxin...
Next time you're splashing around in the sea on holiday, you might want to close your mouth
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9 years ago
This stomach-churning photograph shows the types of microscopic creatures that are crawling around in just a drop of seawater, which has been magnified 25 times to reveal what's living in it....
Pebble Limited Partnership Files Suit In An Effort To Usurp The EPA
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9 years ago
The Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) is hoping to develop the huge Pebble mining prospect near salmon-rich Bristol Bay and has filed suit to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from...
An oil tanker sank off the Japanese coast on Thursday
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9 years ago
The captain of an oil tanker is missing after the vessel exploded and caught fire off the Japanese coast, sending columns of acrid smoke billowing into the sky. The 80-metre Shoku Maru had...
Finally a drive of 24,901 miles around the world's widest point would cost just $26 in fuel.
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9 years ago
After testing on a track, judges at the event in Rotterdam, theNetherlands, calculated the car could do 2,072 miles (3,330 km)per litre - theequivalent of 9,400 miles (15,100)per gallon....
We are 'on the brink' of a sixth great extinction as plants and animals die out 1,000 times faster than before humans arrived
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9 years ago
A baby golden lion Tamarin. Once thought to be extinct, this Tamarin is a success story because biologists have helped set aside land for them. Species of plants and animals are going extinct...
A biodegradable plastic made from waste methane
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9 years ago
http://m.phys.org/news/2014-05-biodegradable-plastic-methane.html What if we could make the Great Pacific Garbage Patch just disappear? What if plastics didn't accumulate in our landfills? What if...
Spanish Island to be Fully Powered by Wind, Water
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9 years ago
http://earthtechling.com/2014/04/spanish-island-to-be-fully-powered-by-wind-water/ The smallest and least known of Spain's Canary Islands, El Hierro, is making a splash by becoming the first...
US Supreme Court refuses halt to BP spill payments
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9 years ago
Washington: The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected BP's emergency petition to halt oil spill payments while the court considers whether to take up a broader dispute over BP's allegation...
Earthquakes Hit Alaska's Aleutian Island and New Zealand
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9 years ago
A NewsTalkers Article CNN has reported earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific near the Bering Sea, and in the South Pacific Ocean southeast ofRaoul Island near New...
Warming may both hurt and help critical tourism business in Southeast Alaska
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US Forest Service officials announced Friday, July 18, 2014, that the ceiling of a popular Mendenhall Glacier ice cave collapsed near the entry. Global warming could threaten Alaska's...
'We're f*****': Climate change will be catastrophic for mankind after study reveals methane leaking from the Arctic Ocean, scientist warns
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Claim was made by Dr Jason Box about a study at Stockholm University Methane is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat Scientists believed bubbles would dissolve...
Arctic methane hydrates” out of the science corner onto the economic and political agenda
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Bubbling methane melted a hole in an otherwise frozen lake in Alaska's Brooks Range. Katey Walter Anthony photo When the Ice Blog was launched in 2008, one of the first posts from a...
Earth has been getting hotter for the past 10,000 YEARS, contradicting studies that humans started global warming
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A study last year (shown by the blue lines) said that temperatures in the Holocene maximum (8000 9000 years ago) - cooled by 0.5C. But climate models (yellow and black) suggest that the...
Humans greatest driving force behind glacier meltdown: study
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9 years ago
Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press Published Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:43PM EDT Last Updated Thursday, August 14, 2014 5:00PM EDT In this photo taken on July 31, 2014, Chip...
Township in Solomon Islands Is 1st in Pacific to Relocate Due to Climate Change
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Aug 15, 2014 Under threat from rising sea levels and tsunamis, the authorities of a provincial capital in the Solomon Islands have decided to relocate from a small island in the first...
Keystone climate impact could be 4 times U.S. State Dept. estimate, study says
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9 years ago
This March 17, 2014, file photo shows a stake in the ground wrapped with tape that marks the route of the Keystone XL pipeline in Tilden, Neb. The much-debated Keystone XL pipeline could...