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Do hot climates make people more violent?
2016-07-07 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Two researchers argue that climate is the primary driver of aggressionThey say there's a "general trend" between proximity to the equator and violence One of the uncomfortable facts of life is that some countries - and within the U.S., some states - are more violent than others. Figuring out what makes societies and communities more violent is a big-time quest for social scientists, since if you know what leads to killing, you'll have a better shot at defusing it. Drawing on a host of studies,...
Climates coral killers move in swiftly
2016-06-23 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: solate seascape of bleached corals on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland. Image: John Howell via Flickr Worst-ever bleaching event affects 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef as rising temperatures and sea levels bring swift death to vast swathes of colourful corals. Corals affected by mass bleaching on the northern Great Barrier Reef are the sickest Australian scientists have ever seen. The corals have been hit by unusually high sea temperatures a consequence of El...
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3M tape offers indestructible weld perfect for cold weather climates
2016-02-29 22:20:18| Canadian Plastics Headlines
3M’s VHB Tape permanently adheres one substrate to another, offering an “indestructible weld. And many engineers and entrepreneurs are taking note. The post 3M tape offers indestructible weld perfect for cold weather climates appeared first on Canadian Plastics.
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UN counts climates human cost
2015-11-27 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: In the 20 years since the first UN conference on climate change, weather-related disasters have claimed 606,000 human lives, damaged or destroyed 87 million homes, and injured, displaced or left helpless a total of 4.1 billion people. A new study from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) demonstrates that 90 percent of all disasters are now weather-related. And the average of 335 weather-related disasters per year in the last 10 years is twice that recorded between 1985 and 1995. ...
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Pope Francis to Explore Climates Effect on Worlds Poor
2015-06-14 00:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Ban Ki-moon arrived at the Vatican with his own college of cardinals. Mr. Ban, the United Nations secretary general, had brought the leaders of all his major agencies to see Pope Francis, a show of organizational muscle and respect for a meeting between two global institutions that had sometimes shared a bumpy past but now had a mutual interest. The agenda was poverty, and Francis inveighed against the economy of exclusion as he addressed Mr. Bans delegation at the Apostolic Palace. But in...
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