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Katowice COP24 Notebook: ministers asked to stand up against climate change

Posted on December 11, 2018 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

KATOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - Talks billed as the most important U.N. conference since the Paris 2015 deal on climate change are in their crucial final week in Katowice, capital of Poland’s Silesian coal mining district. The aim is to meet…

Trump administration proposes weakening U.S. waterway protections

Posted on December 11, 2018 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration proposed on Tuesday reducing federal protections for U.S. waterways, an action sought by ranching and mining interests but one that will likely be held up in the courts amid lawsuits brought by environmentalists. The…

Ministers – but few leaders – arrive for crucial part of climate talks

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KATOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - Brexit turmoil and French riots have kept many government chiefs away from the final and crucial week of U.N. climate talks, with only four national leaders present on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO - Participants take part in…

Trump EPA Proposes Big Changes To Federal Water Protections

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Nathan Rott | 0 Comments

From NPR The Trump administration wants to substantially limit which waterways are protected under the Clean Water Act. Farmers and developers have long lobbied against the current rule as too expansive. (Image credit: Seth Perlman/AP) Read the full article from…

ISS: Spacewalk cosmonauts investigate mystery hole

Posted on December 11, 2018 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are engaged on a spacewalk to investigate a mysterious hole that caused a loss of air pressure in August. The cause of the hole on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, docked…

U.S. proposing to weaken Obama-era wetland protections

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed weakening protections for U.S. wetlands, an action sought by ranching and mining interests but one that will likely be held up in the courts amid lawsuits brought by environmentalists. The proposal,…

Arctic posts second warmest year on record in 2018: U.S. NOAA

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(Reuters) - The Arctic had its second-hottest year on record in 2018, part of a warming trend that may be dramatically changing earth’s weather patterns, according to a report released on Tuesday by the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.…

Deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado savanna falls to record low

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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil’s tropical Cerrado savanna, which makes up a quarter of the country, fell 11 percent to a record low in 2018 compared with a year earlier, the Ministry of Environment said in a statement on…

Cuadrilla pauses gas fracking at English site after more tremors

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LONDON (Reuters) - British shale gas company Cuadrilla has again paused fracking at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire, northwest England, after tremors were detected, the company said. FILE PHOTO: Cuadrilla's Preston Road fracking site is seen near Blackpool,…

Total invites activists to offshore French Guyana drilling site

Posted on December 11, 2018 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

FILE PHOTO: Greenpeace activists demonstrate outside the Palais des Congres after they disrupted Total's annual shareholders meeting in protest against the French oil and gas major's quest to the drill in the ecologically sensitive Amazon basin and French Guyana, in…