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641.Air pollution threat hidden as research ‘presumes people are at home’: study (2016-08-30)
... Previous investigations fail to reveal impact of ‘world’s largest human health threat’ because they do not account for people’s movement, researchers say Smog covers midtown Manhattan in New York, an area with high PM2.5 levels. Photograph: Adam Rountree/AP ...
642.Victoria to permanently ban fracking and coal seam gas exploration (2016-08-30)
... Activists and farmers hail decision after inquiry into onshore unconventional gas received 1,600 submissions The Victorian government said the fracking ban ‘acknowledges that the risks involved outweigh any potential benefits’. Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters ...
643.Climate Change Authority splits over ETS report commissioned by Coalition (2016-08-30)
... Exclusive: Top climate advisers divided over report, which recommends a policy that could break the political gridlock over climate change Climate Change Authority members Anthea Harris, Professor David Karoly and Professor Clive Hamilton in 2012. Karoly and Hamilton plan to issue a dissenting report on how the government can meet its emissions reduction target. Photograph:... ...
644.Russia uses Karadag nature reserve to replenish its budget (2016-08-25)
... As we reported earlier, last year the Crimean Natural Reserve was transferred to the ownership of the Presidential Administration of Russia as a private hunting site.i The next victim of the annexation became Karadag reserve. Assets of the reserve were transferred from ownership of the Crimea to federal ownership of the Russian Federation. The corresponding... ...
645.How locals steal wood (2016-08-25)
... EPL made the second raid to the forest areas of Western Ukraine to inspect forest logging and its legitimacy. This time we examined management of forestry in the national nature park “Hutsulshchyna” and the state enterprise “Kutsky forestry.” ...
646.How locals steal wood (2016-08-25)
... EPL made the second raid to the forest areas of Western Ukraine to inspect forest logging and its legitimacy. This time we examined management of forestry in the national nature park “Hutsulshchyna” and the state enterprise “Kutsky forestry.” In this area we have recorded a large number of illegal logging done by local people without... ...
647.A barbaric rally in the nature reserve has been stopped in time (2016-08-21)
... Recently we learnt about the intention to commit massive violations of the environmental law. In particular, a group of unknown people who call themselves “Excursion auto, motorcycle tours in the Carpathians” plan for the period of 20-25 August 2016 to conduct a massive motorcycle race in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve (Reserve Marmarosky array: Berlebashka mountan,... ...
648.A barbaric rally in the nature reserve has been stopped in time (2016-08-17)
... Recently we learnt about the intention to commit massive violations of the environmental law. In particular, a group of unknown people who call themselves “Excursion auto, motorcycle tours in the Carpathians” plan for the period of 20-25 August 2016 to conduct a massive motorcycle race in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve (Reserve Marmarosky array: Berlebashka mountan,... ...
649.Ground pine, sphagnum and the Cheremosh (2016-08-17)
... In July 2016, EPL made first trips to the Carpathian region in order to reveal violations in the forestry management. The first object of the survey was Burkutska forestry of the state enterprise “Verhovynsky forestry” (Ivano-Frankivsk region Verkhovyna district) where we analyzed the situation with forest logging and its impact on mountain ecosystems. ...
650.Ground pine, sphagnum and the Cheremosh (2016-08-16)
... In July 2016, EPL made first trips to the Carpathian region in order to reveal violations in the forestry management. The first object of the survey was Burkutska forestry of the state enterprise “Verhovynsky forestry” (Ivano-Frankivsk region Verkhovyna district) where we analyzed the situation with forest logging and its impact on mountain ecosystems. From Burkut... ...
