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Australia covered up UN climate change fears for Tasmania forests and Kakadu

2016-05-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A draft UN report on climate change which was scrubbed of all reference to Australia over fears it could deter visitors to the Great Barrier Reef, also outlined possible threats to the Tasmania wilderness and Kakadu. The draft report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef, which described climate change as the biggest long-term threat to the [reef] today, and to its ecosystems services, biodiversity, heritage values and tourism economy. It concluded that without a comprehensive response...

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Zika fears prompt 150 public health experts to call for olympics to be moved from Rio

2016-05-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ABC: A group of 150 prominent scientists, doctors and medical ethicists have signed a letter calling for this summer's Olympic Games to be postponed or moved from Rio de Janeiro due to the ongoing Zika virus outbreak in Brazil. In a letter directed to World Health Organization Director Dr. Margaret Chan, the group said that new findings about the Zika virus should result in the games being moved or postponed to safeguard the thousands of athletes, staff and reporters scheduled to attend the games....

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Energy suppliers vent comparison fears

2016-05-27 22:00:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Independent energy companies want consumers to be able to see all available tariffs when using price comparison websites.

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Australia removed from United Nations climate report over tourism fears

2016-05-27 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

IUSBPreface: In Latin America, Coro and its port, in Venezuela; Huascaran National Park in Peru; Atlantic Forest - Southeast Reserves in Brazil; and the National Park Rapa Nui, Chile, are the other vulnerable sites on the World Heritage and Tourism report in a changing climate, prepared by UNESCO in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (USC). Numerous world's most important coral reefs, including in the islands of New Caledonia in the western...

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