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1.5C Rise in Temperature Enough to Start Permafrost Melt, Scientists Warn

2013-02-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A global temperature rise of 1.5C would be enough to start the melting of permafrost in Siberia, scientists warned on Thursday. Any widespread thaw in Siberia's permanently frozen ground could have severe consequences for climate change. Permafrost covers about 24% of the land surface of the northern hemisphere, and widespread melting could eventually trigger the release of hundreds of gigatonnes of carbon dioxide and methane, which would have a massive warming effect. However, any such melting...

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UK conservation bodies warn of wind farm threat to heritage sites

2013-02-22 01:00:00| Power Technology

UK conservation bodies English Heritage and the National Trust have warned that wind farms are posing a threat to heritage sites in the country.

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Activists warn of industrial palm oil expansion in Congo rainforest

2013-02-21 22:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Industrial oil palm plantations are spreading from Malaysia and Indonesia to the Congo raising fears about deforestation and social conflict. A new report by The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), dramatically entitled The Seeds of Destruction, announces that new palm oil plantations in the Congo rainforest will soon increase fivefold to half a million hectares, an area nearly the size of Delaware. But conservationists warn that by ignoring the lessons of palm oil in Southeast Asia, this trend could...

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Financial markets inherently biased against clean energy, warn analysts

2013-02-21 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: Clean energy firms might be lobbying the wrong ministers when they seek market reforms to help drive green investment. Rather than focusing on energy policies, they should be seeking to reform the "institutionally fossilist" financial markets. That is the stark message contained in a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), which uncovered a litany of biases in financial regulation that tilt markets in favour of conventional energy and could potentially hold back the flow of investment...

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