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India's first human trafficking law: draft falls short, campaigners say
2016-07-04 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Charities and activists have criticised the draft of India's first anti-human trafficking law, saying the proposed legislation is flawed and does not address all aspects of the fast-growing crime. The Trafficking of Persons bill, unveiled in May, seeks to unify India's existing anti-trafficking laws, prioritise survivors' needs and provide for special courts to expedite cases. Consultations on the draft bill ended last week, and women and child rights campaigners have demanded numerous revisions....
Researchers identify human fingerprint on Indo-Pacific warm pool growth
2016-07-03 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP), Earth's largest region of warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), has the highest rainfall and is fundamental to global atmospheric circulation and the hydrological cycle. The IPWP has experienced substantial warming and growth during the past century. The region also experienced the highest rates of sea-level rise over the world, indicating large increases in ocean heat content and leading to substantial impacts on small island states in the region. Recent studies...
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Uttarakhand to Amazon basin; protected forests affected by human intervention
2016-07-02 01:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
American Bazaar: This summer brought blaze to the forests of the world and thousands of hectares of pristine greenery burnt from Uttarakhand in India to Canada and to the rainforests in the Amazon basin. As it was in Uttarakhand where most forest fires were started by people, either accidently or deliberately, destroying about 3500 ha forests (See, Blazing Hills of Uttarakhand: Need for Timely Interventions by Agrawal, Rakesh), it was also the case elsewhere and a recent BBC report has found that anthropogenic activities...
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From fire breaks to fire hazards: Human activity & climate change transforming world's peatlands
2016-06-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Since the glaciers receded about 12,000 years ago, the humble bog has acted as a storage vault for atmospheric carbon, packed with dead moss and topped by a green layer of living moss that can come back after a burn. The world's bogs hold more carbon than the word's rainforests, and Canada is home to about 185 billion tonnes of increasingly vulnerable peat deposits, ranging from 40 cm to several metres deep. Dried peatlands fuelled a 2011 fire in Slave Lake Alberta, for example, and the recent...
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The Environment: Latin Americas Battleground for Human Rights
2016-06-22 02:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: 2015 was the deadliest year on record for the killings of environmental activists around the world, according to a new Global Witness report. The report, On Dangerous Ground, found that in 2015, 185 people were killed defending the environment across 16 countries, a 59 percent increase from 2014. "The environment is becoming a new battleground for human rights," Global Witness' Campaign Leader for Environmental and Land Defenders Billy Kyte told IPS. "Many of these activists are being treated...
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