Fix NewsNew channels.http://altport.org/fixNews/2024-03-19T01:34:21+01:00FeedCreator 1.6Fossil Fuels Exempted From COP282023-12-13T15:11:07+01:002023-12-13T15:11:07+01:002023-12-13T15:11:07+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.FossilFuelsExemptedFromCOP28noisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.FossilFuelsExemptedFromCOP28><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/crowd.jpg /></a> Phasing out fossil fuel use is no longer in the plans of world leaders. Former US vice president Al Gore criticized the draft of the agreement being negotiated in Dubai as being a dream for OPEC but a nightmare for everyone else.Chevron Ignores Climate Responsibilities2021-03-12T04:28:25+01:002021-03-12T04:28:25+01:002021-03-12T04:28:25+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.ChevronIgnoresClimateResponsibilitiesnoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.ChevronIgnoresClimateResponsibilities><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/atmosphere01.jpg /></a> Resorting to obfuscation and greed rather than aligning itself with the human race, Chevron continues its climate destruction. Chevron once again fails to set climate targets that would legitimately cut its methane pollution in line with the Paris Agreement.Rutgers Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment Plan2021-03-12T04:21:54+01:002021-03-12T04:21:54+01:002021-03-12T04:21:54+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.RutgersAnnouncesFossilFuelDivestmentPlannoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.RutgersAnnouncesFossilFuelDivestmentPlan><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/exxon.jpg /></a> The largest public university in New Jersey has elected to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry. After years of hard work from students, faculty, and alumni, the administration is now acknowledging that it makes neither financial nor moral sense to try and profit off the destruction of the climate system.Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Much Faster Than Expected2018-06-14T18:54:01+01:002018-06-14T18:54:01+01:002018-06-14T18:54:01+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.AntarcticIceSheetIsMeltingMuchFasterThanExpectednoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.AntarcticIceSheetIsMeltingMuchFasterThanExpected><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/iceberg.jpg /></a> The planet's largest ice sheet is now losing more than 240 billion tons of ice every year -- a threefold increase from less than a decade ago. The melting is happening so fast that it could cause sea levels to rise 6 inches by the end of the century, the study projectAlarming Extinction Potential By 20502017-05-19T19:32:44+01:002017-05-19T19:32:44+01:002017-05-19T19:32:44+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.AlarmingExtinctionPotentialBy2050noisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.AlarmingExtinctionPotentialBy2050><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/gorilla.jpg /></a> Biologists predict that half of the world's species could become extinct by the middle of the century. A new campaign to raise awareness has hit mainstream American culture, but will the most problematic practices and policies change?Large Sections Of Australian Great Reef Now Dead2017-03-16T04:15:51+01:002017-03-16T04:15:51+01:002017-03-16T04:15:51+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.LargeSectionsOfAustralianGreatReefNowDeadnoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.LargeSectionsOfAustralianGreatReefNowDead><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/shark.jpg /></a> Scientists had not expected the reef to die of for another 30 years, and yet it is already dead. Huge sections of the Great Barrier Reef, stretching across hundreds of miles of its most pristine northern sector, were recently found to be dead, killed last year by unusually warm seawater.Up To Half Of Species Face Extinction By 21002017-02-27T18:05:48+01:002017-02-27T18:05:48+01:002017-02-27T18:05:48+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.UpToHalfOfSpeciesFaceExtinctionBy2100noisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.UpToHalfOfSpeciesFaceExtinctionBy2100><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/gorilla.jpg /></a> Scientists are warning that the already staggering 20% of species at risk of extinction may rise to as much as half by the end of this century. Meanwhile, the US government under Trump aims to dismantle environmental protections. Its new head flouted environmental protection in Oklahoma before assuming command of the EPA, generating unprecedented numbers of earthquakes in Oklahoma, where few were known before fracking went bonkers there. EPA Chooses Greed Over Bees2017-01-14T19:42:09+01:002017-01-14T19:42:09+01:002017-01-14T19:42:09+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.EPAChoosesGreedOverBeesnoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.EPAChoosesGreedOverBees><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/sunny.jpg /></a> Even as it released research findings that link Neonics to the decimation of bees, the US Environmental Protection Agency failed to adopt a proposal that would have regulated the use of the dangerous pesticides that contain them. In effect, the EPA abandoned its core responsibility to protect the environment in favor of pleasing agribusiness giants.Obscene Amounts of Methane Leaking From Gas Industry2016-08-16T04:34:15+01:002016-08-16T04:34:15+01:002016-08-16T04:34:15+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.ObsceneAmountsOfMethaneLeakingFromGasIndustrynoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.ObsceneAmountsOfMethaneLeakingFromGasIndustry><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/atmosphere01.jpg /></a> A study revealed that methane, which contributes to global warming for up to 20 years once released in the atmosphere, is leaking at alarming rates from oil and gas industry infrastructure and old wells in the American southwest.Cold War Toxic Waste Exposed By Melting Ice2016-08-11T17:25:11+01:002016-08-11T17:25:11+01:002016-08-11T17:25:11+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.ColdWarToxicWasteExposedByMeltingIcenoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org) A study finds that rapidly melting ice in Greenland will unearth radioactive waste, toxic PCBs, and raw sewage left behind by secret U.S. military base in the 1960s.Faster Dying Through Chemistry Thanks To DuPont2016-08-10T17:04:37+01:002016-08-10T17:04:37+01:002016-08-10T17:04:37+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.FasterDyingThroughChemistryThanksToDuPontnoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.FasterDyingThroughChemistryThanksToDuPont><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/industries.jpg /></a> Millions of Americans are drinking water polluted with perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. DuPont manufactured the chemicals for decades and dumped them into public waterways. Once in the environment, they do not break down, and they are toxic to all the Americans who are exposed to them.Central Asian Glaciers Receding At Alarming Rate2015-08-18T01:48:44+01:002015-08-18T01:48:44+01:002015-08-18T01:48:44+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.CentralAsianGlaciersRecedingAtAlarmingRatenoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.CentralAsianGlaciersRecedingAtAlarmingRate><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/iceberg.jpg /></a> Since the early 1960s, the glaciers at Tien Shan mountain range have receded 27%. By mid-century, half of what remains could be gone.Another Terrible Gulf Oil Spill2015-04-18T22:10:52+01:002015-04-18T22:10:52+01:002015-04-18T22:10:52+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.AnotherTerribleGulfOilSpillnoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.AnotherTerribleGulfOilSpill><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/petroleum.jpg /></a> Although Taylor Energy Company, which formerly operated an oil platform that collapsed during Hurricane Ivan, has downplayed the extent of the leak, the Associated Press cites experts who say the spill could be one of the largest ever in the Gulf.Canadians Demand Climate Action2015-04-12T20:45:37+01:002015-04-12T20:45:37+01:002015-04-12T20:45:37+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.CanadiansDemandClimateActionnoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.CanadiansDemandClimateAction><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/earth.jpg /></a> In a march through Quebec, activists focused on the need to address climate change, and Canada's unfortunate political commitments to the extraction of tar sands.Chinese Glaciers Disappearing Quickly2014-12-24T18:19:01+01:002014-12-24T18:19:01+01:002014-12-24T18:19:01+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.ChineseGlaciersDisappearingQuicklynoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.ChineseGlaciersDisappearingQuickly><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/iceberg.jpg /></a> Glaciers in China are disappearing quickly, an environmental institute in Lanzhou confirmed on Wednesday. Scientists with the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute conducted a lengthy survey of southern glaciers, which provide vital drinking water to India, and found that their total geographic area had decreased by 13 percent since 2002.Invest Now Or Face Irreversible Effects of Climate Change2014-11-02T15:53:49+01:002014-11-02T15:53:49+01:002014-11-02T15:53:49+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.InvestNowOrFaceIrreversibleEffectsOfClimateChangenoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.InvestNowOrFaceIrreversibleEffectsOfClimateChange><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/kilimanjaro.jpg /></a> It is technically feasible to transition to a low-carbon economy according to Youba Sokona, the co-chairman of IPCC Working Group III. What is lacking are appropriate policies and institutions. These comments came in relation to a new report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which concluded that policy changes are badly needed to mitigate the impacts of human generated greenhouse gases.Vanishing Species2014-09-25T05:42:22+01:002014-09-25T05:42:22+01:002014-09-25T05:42:22+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.VanishingSpeciesnoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.VanishingSpecies><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/forest.jpg /></a> A collection of species that, while once common in the United States, young people may not see anymore.Scientists Warn of Rising Seas As Antarctic Ice Sheet Melts2014-05-12T21:22:36+01:002014-05-12T21:22:36+01:002014-05-12T21:22:36+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.ScientistsWarnOfRisingSeasAsAntarcticIceSheetMeltsnoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.ScientistsWarnOfRisingSeasAsAntarcticIceSheetMelts><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/greenland.png /></a> The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported Monday.
The finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable. The rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.UN Panel Warns That Climate Change Will Suck2014-03-31T01:08:20+01:002014-03-31T01:08:20+01:002014-03-31T01:08:20+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.UNPanelWarnsThatClimateChangeWillSucknoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.UNPanelWarnsThatClimateChangeWillSuck><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/kilimanjaro.jpg /></a> Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control.Geoengineering Insanity2014-01-16T21:50:50+01:002014-01-16T21:50:50+01:002014-01-16T21:50:50+01:00http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.GeoengineeringInsanitynoisefactorDELETE@THISnetscape.net (Altport.org)<a href=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/story.php/Story.GeoengineeringInsanity><img align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 border=1 src=http://artcontext.org/act/05/fixNews/uploads/Icons/smog.jpg /></a> Al Gore denounces geoengineering climate change "solutions" as "insane, utterly mad and delusional in the extreme."