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'A one-off in human history': Stern's warning climate change battle

2015-11-08 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Europe has to step up its effort to combat climate change and wake up to the urgency of the situation, the climate change expert Lord Stern has said before crunch UN talks in Paris later this month. Europeans need to end subsidies for fossil fuels, multiply energy efficiency efforts, improve mass public transport systems and accelerate the roll-out of electric cars in order to live up to their commitments, Stern told the Guardian in an interview. Decisions taken at the Paris summit, opening...

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Did climate change jump-start human evolution in East Africa?

2015-11-04 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: IT`S been called the cradle of humanity, but the significance of East Africa`s Turkana basin in human history is still unclear. Now some ancient herbivore teeth are revealing the region`s special climate around the time our genus Homo first appeared. Turkana, part of the Great Rift Valley straddling Kenya and Ethiopia, has been a hallowed site for the study of human evolution ever since Maeve and Richard Leakey began uncovering fossils there in the 1960s. Ranging from Australopithecus to our own...

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