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Norway funds climate change impact curbs
2013-07-12 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Viet Nam News: Norway will provide Viet Nam with nearly VND10 billion (US$476,000) to conduct a four-year project to reduce the impacts of climate change on rice production. The project will be conducted in the northern province of Nam Dinh and the Mekong Delta provinces of Soc Trang and Tra Vinh from next month. The Norwegian Embassy and the Viet Nam Academy of Agricultural Sciences signed the agreement for the project in Ha Noi on Wednesday.
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North India among climate change impact hotspots: Study
2013-07-04 15:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Zee News: A new study by an international team of researchers has suggested that north India is among the few regions identified as hotspots vulnerable to extreme climate changes, which in turn could lead to a fall in agricultural production and severe ecosystem changes. The study, based on the computer simulations of future climate scenarios, was conducted by the international researchers from Germany and was published in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While the climate...
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Burning Question: How Will Climate Change Impact Western Wildfires?
2013-07-03 22:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Climate change will dramatically alter wildfire patterns in the western United States before the century ends, studies show. Experts are reluctant to paint a broad picture of future fire risk because fires vary so drastically among regions -- a forest fire in high-elevation Colorado, for example, is vastly different than coastal, chaparral-fed flames in California. But many fire scientists agree the doomsday scenario of massive fires that wreak death and destruction can be quashed through smarter...
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Study finds climate impact of long distance trip can vary by factor of 10 depending upon mode, efficiency and occupancy
2013-06-27 19:30:22| Green Car Congress
Australia: Limiting the impact of climate change action
2013-06-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Governments should avoid costly subsidies for renewable energy and businesses ought to be investing to limit the impacts from extreme-weather events. These are the two key recommendations from two leading analysts with quite different careers. Admiral Dennis Blair, formerly US Director of National Intelligence for President Barack Obama and commander of US Pacific forces, said climate change was ''becoming a specific issue ... in the security planning of all countries''. Admiral Blair will outline...
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