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Climate change a major health threat to children, doctors warn
2015-10-26 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Climate change poses a rising global public health and safety threat, and children are particularly vulnerable, the American Academy of Pediatrics says in a new policy statement. The group is urging pediatricians and politicians to work together to solve the crisis and protect children from the immediate and long-term health consequences of climate change. "There is nothing more important than protecting the health, welfare and future for our children and grandchildren," the statement's lead...
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Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal To Reduce Greenhouse Emissions From US Power Plants
2015-08-03 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama revealed the final version of his clean power plan to dramatically cut emissions from US power plants on Monday, calling it a moral obligation. Speaking at the White House, Obama said the unprecedented carbon dioxide limits are the "the single most important step" America has ever taken to fight climate change, while warning that the problem was so large hat the world must get it right quickly or it may become impossible to reverse. "There is such a thing as being too...
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Report Sees Major Food Shortage as Climate Change Danger
2015-07-17 01:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Insurance Journal: Climate change reports and studies abound lately - as you will note from a previous column - but one recent report gives potentially the starkest prediction yet of what impacts climate change could have. The report from Lloyd's of London, "Food System Shock: The insurance impacts of acute disruption to global food supply," isn't focused on climate change, but the author of the report calls it out as "an exacerbating factor." The report notes that a shock to the global food supply could trigger...
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Climate Change Is a Major Buzz Kill for Bumblebees
2015-07-10 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The humble bumblebee is feeling the squeeze from climate change. Research shows that its southern range is being reduced as the planet warmsand yet it seems to show no sign of migrating northwards to safety. This unwillingness to head for cooler climes could prove disastrous, and has prompted some scientists to suggest that humans may need to intervene by creating refuges for the bees away from the heat. Jeremy Kerr, a biologist at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and colleagues report in...
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Climate change: Major energy companies write UN request help setting up carbon pricing scheme
2015-06-01 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Six major energy companies have written to the United Nations asking for help in setting up a carbon pricing scheme to help tackle climate change. BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Statoil, Eni and the BG Group asked Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to help them hold direct dialogue with the UN and willing governments about developing a scheme to charge those who produce carbon emissions. We have important areas of interest...
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