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Ranking shows rich nations not leading way to end poverty, inequality
2016-07-13 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: On an unseasonably cold day, a homeless person tries to stay warm at the entrance of a subway station near the White House in Washington January 20, 2016. About our Humanitarian coverage Poor scores for rich countries on promoting clean energy, fighting inequality and climate change, with only Germany and UK in top 10 Most of the world's richest countries failed to earn top marks on their progress toward reaching the United Nations' goals to end poverty and inequality, with only Germany and...
'This is what climate change looks like', mass mangrove die offs hit top end
2016-07-11 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AFP: Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia's remote north have died, scientists said Monday, with climate change the likely cause. Some 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres), or nine percent of the mangroves in the Gulf of Carpentaria, perished in just one month according to researchers from Australia's James Cook University, the first time such an event has been recorded. It follows massive coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef from climate change and the news last week that warmer ocean...
News Release: Crosswalk education + enforcement action nets 33 citations, 1 warning on NE Sandy Blvd as PBOT, Police work on Vision Zero goal to end traffic fatalities
2016-07-08 01:53:52| PortlandOnline
Crosswalk education + enforcement action nets 33 citations, 1 warning on NE Sandy Blvd as PBOT, Police work on Vision Zero goal to end traffic fatalities
2016-07-07 18:00:39| PortlandOnline
The Portland Bureau of Transportation and Portland Police Bureau announced the results of a crosswalk safety education and enforcement action that took place on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon at the marked crossing on NE Sandy Boulevard at NE 85th Avenue.
As World Burns, Richest Nations Can't Decide When to End Fossil Fuel Handouts
2016-07-02 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: The world's richest nations have failed to agree on a deadline to phase out fossil fuels subsidies--a commitment energy ministers made in 2009--stirring new fears over the impact of the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars that go toward keeping dirty energy afloat every year. Energy ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) met in Beijing on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss bringing those subsidies to a close after the Group of 7 (G7), the world's seven wealthiest economies, last month committed...
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