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Canada: Premiers want flexibility from feds on how to tackle climate change
2016-03-03 20:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Canadian premiers headed into the First Ministers Meeting hoping the federal government would remain open and flexible on how exactly to fight climate change, and there are signs an agreement has been reached. Canada is a very big country, and I think the approach to dealing with this issue needs to be as diverse as the country is and hopefully we will have a federal government that will listen to that, Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski told reporters at the Vancouver Convention Centre Thursday morning....
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Palo Alto to tackle climate change, block by block
2016-03-03 06:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: Palo Alto will be part of a three-city experiment to get residents to work block by block on sustainability and climate change goals in their daily lives. Climate change often is discussed broadly, but the Cool Block pilot program takes a "bottom-up" approach, said Sandra Slater, the Northern California director of the Cool City Challenge, an initiative of the Empowerment Institute. The program's goal is to get households to take action on climate change, be more socially connected with each...
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Bin Laden urged Obama to tackle climate catastrophe
2016-03-02 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Osama bin Laden said America was better off waging a war on climate change than on Islam, according to documents made public on Tuesday. The letter was included in materials seized in a US raid on his secret compound in Pakistan in May 2011, attributed to the Al Qaeda mastermind by intelligence officials. the world should put its efforts into attempting to reduce the release of gases, read the undated, unsigned letter to an aide, Reuters reported. This is a struggle between two of the...
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Tackle Hidden Hunger by Improving Food Systems
2016-02-29 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Nutrition is complex and multi-dimensional. Micronutrient deficiencies or "hidden hunger' are much more widespread than chronic undernourishment or hunger, understood as inadequate dietary energy. Micronutrient deficiencies refer to the lack of essential vitamins, minerals and other substances required over the human life cycle by the body in small amounts. Micronutrient undernutrition has long-term effects on health, learning ability and productivity, leading to high social and public costs, reduced...
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Fire crews tackle large blaze at paper factory in Melbourne's north
2016-02-25 11:39:23| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Fire crews in Melbourne are tackling a large fire in a paper yard at Pratt Industries in Campbellfield, in Melbourne's north. Staff have been evacuated and fire crews in breathing apparatus are fighting the fire in a 30-metre by 20-metre stack contained within concrete walls.
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