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Climate change tops UN summit agenda in Samoa
2014-08-31 15:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: It is the biggest event the tiny Pacific nation of Samoa has ever seen. A United Nations conference is getting underway to discuss the issues facing some of the worlds most vulnerable countries. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon says economic and environmental sustainability will top the agenda. Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas reports from Apia.
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How might a currency change affect UK?
2014-08-31 05:45:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Five ways a Scotland currency change could affect rest of UK
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Local salamanders could shed light on life under climate change
2014-08-31 04:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Does a rough life as a youngster foretell hard times as an adult? A Virginia Commonwealth University researcher wants to know if thats true -- for salamanders. Doctoral student Julie Charbonnier is studying whether deprivation in early life affects how the little amphibians might fare in a world changed by global warming. How does your childhood impact you later in life? asked Charbonnier, summarizing the work. The object of her attention is the spotted salamander, a dark little cigar...
Will Climate Change Denialism Help the Russian Economy?
2014-08-30 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The recent call from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for "tightening belts" has convinced even optimists that something is deeply wrong with the Russian economy. No doubt the planned tax increases (introduction of a sales tax and increases in VAT and income tax) will inflict severe damage on most businesses and their employees, if last year's example of what happened when taxes were raised for individual entrepreneurs is anything to go by - 650,000 of them were forced to close their businesses....
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Climate Change Ups Odds of a Southwest Megadrought
2014-08-29 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If you think the drought in California is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. New research indicates that climate change is giving a boost to the odds of long-term drought across the Southwest. The research, published Thursday in the Journal of Climate, puts the chances of a megadrought lasting 35 years or longer at up to 50 percent in the region. It would be a drought of epic proportions that would wreak havoc on the region's already tenuous water supply for its growing population. "It's been...
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