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A Look Inside Staten Islands Recycling Plant
2016-06-17 15:26:00| Waste Age
Ralph Gardner Jr. of The Wall Street Journal recently visited the recycling plant to check out the trail of New Yorks paper waste. read more
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$1 billion promised for green energy projects in Pacific islands
2016-06-07 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TVNZ: The commitment has come at a Pacific Energy Conference in Auckland today which looked at how the region, hit by rising sea levels, could lead the world in climate change initiatives. Foreign Minister Murray McCully says investments and funding announced today will support Polynesia to achieve more than 50 per cent renewable energy by 2024, provide access to electricity for an estimated one million people in Melanesia and help other countries in the region to double their renewable energy generation....
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Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife
2016-05-25 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: With spring now fully sprung, a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers shows that buds burst earlier in dense urban areas than in their suburban and rural surroundings. This may be music to urban gardeners' ears, but that tune could be alarming to some native and migratory birds and bugs. Urban-dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which...
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The Vanishing Islands Of India's Sundarbans
2016-05-23 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A boat approaches Ghoramara island in India's Sundarbans. Most traffic goes the other way, as thousands of Ghoramara residents have left the flood-prone island in recent years. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption toggle caption David Gilkey/NPR A boat approaches Ghoramara island in India's Sundarbans. Most traffic goes the other way, as thousands of Ghoramara residents have left the flood-prone island in recent years. David Gilkey/NPR People in India know the Sundarbans as a beautiful and dangerous...
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When the Rains Disappear: Drought Grips Pacific Islands
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: From the vantage point of a boat bobbing on the deep blue waters of Majuro Lagoon, the encircling shores of the Pacific coral atoll are normally verdant with tropical vegetation. But on a recent sailing excursion with friends, Angela Saunders was struck by how brown and withered the island looked. "The vibrant color of all the trees was gone,' Saunders, a Majuro-based program manager with the International Organization for Migration, wrote in an email. "It was like someone put dampers on the world.'...
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