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  • Land for sale between Gillette and Buffalo.<br />
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America's "disappearing West" - vast swathes of America's untouched west are being eaten up by roads, logging, mining, building etc.<br />
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Wyoming is the most-affected state according to a study by the Centre for American Progress  (CAP) and the town of Gillette is particularly affected, with the economy based on coal and with mines closing, people are losing their jobs.
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  • Students Climate Strike.<br />
Environmental protest in front of The Capitol
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  • Flying over Western Greenland August 2.2019.<br />
Receding glaciers and snow-less headlands as the region experiences historic melting due to an unprecedented heatwave.<br />
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"Europe's historic heat wave has moved to Greenland, melting its ice sheets at dramatic rates. Eleven billion tons of ice melted across the country on Wednesday alone — its biggest melt this season. <br />
While Greenland's ice sheets usually melt during the summer, record temperatures have meant a longer and more dramatic melt season. As sea levels rise globally, so do the likelihood of extreme weather events and coastal flooding. <br />
Roughly 197 billion tons of ice from Greenland melted into the Atlantic Ocean in July, Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute, told CBS News Friday. That's about 36 percent more than scientists expect in an average year." <br />
From CBS August 2 2019
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  • Jewell Coke Plant on the Dismal river, just outside Grundy
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  • Trailer homes with Wyodak coal power station in the background.<br />
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America's "disappearing West" - vast swathes of America's untouched west are being eaten up by roads, logging, mining, building etc.<br />
<br />
Wyoming is the most-affected state according to a study by the Centre for American Progress  (CAP) and the town of Gillette is particularly affected, with the economy based on coal and with mines closing, people are losing their jobs.
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  • The development of a fracking site (foreground) in rural Pennsylvania, with a coal power station in the background, outside Smithfield PA.
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  • Methane bubbling out of a stream. Before the fracking started, this stream was 'normal', claim the Headleys. Fracking on the land of David and Linda Headley, outside Smithfield PA. While the Headley's own their land they do not own the mineral rights and have no say over where the fracking company can drill on their land. They say that the fracking has caused pollution and gas leaks on their property and polluted their water and damaged their health.
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  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti.<br />
Shanty houses and slum dwellings are built all over the city, from the coast up to the mountains. Building on the steep slopes causes erosion.
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  • Patrick J. ("Pat") Michaels (born February 15, 1950) is an American climatologist. Michaels is a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute. Until 2007 he was research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, where he had worked from 1980.[2][3]<br />
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A self-described skeptic on the issue of global warming, he is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists.<br />
(From Wikipedia)
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  • Indonesia Kalimatan forest fires, TIME
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  • Farmers watching helplessly as fire approaches their fields.<br />
Outside Tengarong, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.<br />
Picture Credit: Dermot Tatlow
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  • Firefighters and soldiers in the forest outside Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia are beaten back by the smoke.<br />
Picture Credit: Dermot Tatlow
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  • Bell-205 helicopter dropping water bomb on smouldering fire in Borneo.<br />
Picture Credit: Dermot Tatlow
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  • Borneo. Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.<br />
Almost futile attempts to fight the fires, a single Bell-205 helicopter carrying a 1500 liter water bucket flown by 33 yr old  U.S. pilot Buck Randolph for the private firm P.T. National Utility Helicopters, flies over destroyed forest to fight a fire in the Sungai Wain forest, home to endangered orangutanÕs and the city of BalikpapanÕs water source.<br />
Picture Credit: Dermot Tatlow
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  • Scale of fire devastation approx 100 km west of Samarinda.<br />
East Kalimantan, Indonesia.<br />
Picture Credit: Dermot Tatlow
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  • Taking a blood sample from sick orangutan forced out of its habitat by the forest fires. At the Balikpapan Orangutan Sanctuary, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.<br />
Picture Credit: Dermot Tatlow
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  • Balikpapan Orangutan Society, a refuge for orphaned orangutans, more and more are turning up due to the fires. Clinging onto man shows their dependence.<br />
East Kalimantan, Indonesia.<br />
Picture Credit: Dermot Tatlow
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  • Puerto Careño, Vichada, Colombia.<br />
The Orinoco river near Puerto Careño, Vichada, Colombia.<br />
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in conjunction with the Omacha Foundation, a Colombian non-profit dedicated to studying and preserving Colombian aquasystems, are surveying the Orinoco to study the current acquatic life ahead of large infastructure and development projects planned along South America's second longest river.
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  • Along BR163 Highway south of Santarem, Brazil<br />
This highway is being paved and will represent a major transport artery cutting through the Brazilian rainforest. Along the length of it a lot of agribusiness is setting up farms, most notably soya.<br />
At the village of Igarape Seco. 30 families used to live here, now there are only 6. Amongst those who have not been bought out are Jose Francisco Lima dos Santos, 41, and his father Cicero de Oliveira Costa, 75. Most of the land had been bought by farmers who have planted large scale agribusiness fields, most notably soya.
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  • Along BR163 Highway near Belterra, south of Santarem, Brazil<br />
This highway is being paved and will represent a major transport artery cutting through the Brazilian rainforest. Along the length of it a lot of agribusiness is setting up farms, most notably soya.<br />
The road allows access for first loggers, then ranchers, then farmers to use the land. Land clearing involves felling and burning trees. The extent of deforestation is a contentious issue between the agribusiness and environmental lobbies.
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  • Along BR163 Highway south of Santarem, Brazil.<br />
This highway is being paved and will represent a major transport artery cutting through the Brazilian rainforest. Along the length of it a lot of agribusiness is setting up farms, most notably soya.<br />
The road allows access for first loggers, then ranchers, then farmers to use the land. Land clearing involves felling and burning trees. The extent of deforestation is a contentious issue between the agribusiness and environmental lobbies.
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  • Road works machinery spews out pollution in the otherwise pristine mountain air outside Shangri-La.<br />
The price of development will be environmental as China uses often outdated environmentally unfriendly machinery, in its rapid race to develop the country.
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  • On the Friendship Highway between Tibet and Nepal horses and carts crossing a pass at 5,000m.
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  • Farmer Mr. Chen at Langtougou village 200k. north of Beijing digging away at the sand dune which has built up behind his house and threatens to over-run it.<br />
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Picture Credit: Dermot Tatlow
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  • On the edge of the Gobi desert, a few km south of the Yellow River, Inner Mongolia, China.<br />
Desertification, the creeping desert encroaches on grazing and farm land. Planting shrubs to hold back desert.<br />
Picture Credit: Dermot Tatlow
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  • Child labour in the hemisphere's second poorest country after Haiti.  Scavengers at the municipal dump of "La Chureca" sift through the city's garbage dump looking for anything that can be reused, re-eaten or resold.<br />
Men women and children work here in hot appalling conditions. Trucks and bulldozers are a hazard as well as the risk of wounds and infection from the trash. Humans are not the only scavengers here, also vultures, dogs and cows eat the rotting food on this dump site.
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  • Survival means eating rotting fish raw in the hemisphere's second poorest country. Scavengers at the municipal dump of "La Chureca" sift through the city's garbage dump looking for anything that can be reused, re-eaten or resold.<br />
Men women and children work here in hot appalling conditions. Trucks and bulldozers are a hazard as well as the risk of wounds and infection from the trash. Humans are not the only scavengers here, also vultures, dogs and cows eat the rotting food on this dump site.
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  • Students Climate Strike.<br />
Environmental protest in front of The Capitol
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