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Climate stresses push Kashmir's poor into militancy, Pakistan experts warn
2015-01-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Financial hardship after a failed apple crop forced Aqeel Ahmed to give up his studies aged 20 and join a militant group fighting Indian rule across the border in the disputed territory of Kashmir. His family, as in many remote villages in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, had banked on earning half a million rupees ($5,000) from their orchard that year. But a sudden cold snap followed by torrential rains and a frost wrecked the apple blossom, dashing their hopes of making enough to buy food. "I...
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Human activity risking life on Earth, warn scientists
2015-01-16 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A group of scientists have warned that human activity is destabilising the Earth system that we depend on, with four of the nine planetary boundaries now being crossed, potentially leading to serious risks and dangers. The researchers explain that the planetary boundaries concept, first published in 2009, identifies nine global priorities relating to human-induced changes to the environment. These nine processes and systems regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system the complex...
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Humanity is in the existential danger zone, scientists warn
2015-01-16 05:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canada Journal: Climate change and high rates of extinctions of animals and plants are pushing the Earth into a danger zone for humanity, said a scientific report card about mankind`s impact on nature. In a new study published in the journal Science, an international team of 18 researchers argue the most important planetary boundary is the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, followed closely by the rate of species extinction. The other planetary boundaries the planets exceeding are the rate of...
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Poor left behind, archbishops warn
2015-01-15 15:58:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York call for a rethink of the way poverty is addressed in the UK, and urge a greater take-up of the living wage.
Experts warn increasing migration due to climate change
2015-01-09 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Experts have warned governments that migration is set to increase in the coming decades as climate change impacts become more frequent and intense. According to data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) 22 million people were displaced by extreme weather events, such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, reports Reuters. The figure is more than three times the number recorded for conflicts and the organisation notes that other years have shown an even wider ratio. The 2013...
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