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Food Quality May Decline With Climate Change
2014-05-25 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian Liberty Voice: Food quality is said to be something that is going to decline as climate change intensifies according to a recent study published by the online journal Nature Climate Change in April this year. The study suggested that due to the elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, plants will lose a lot of their nutritional value. The study was led by professor Arnold Bloom who works in the Department of Plant Sciences at The University of California. The reason that is hypothesized for this...
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World must consider antibiotic-resistant pathogens same level of a threat as climate change
2014-05-25 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Kos: 50 years from now, this year may be remembered as the year the world finally came together to take the challenge of antibiotic resistance seriously enough to set up our first global organization to respond to it. Mark Woolhouse, of Edinburgh University's Centre for Immunity, Infection, and Evolution, and Jeremy Farrar, Director of The Wellcome Trust medical charity write in the journal Nature, calling for the U.N. to found a new global organization to lead the battle against antibiotic resistant...
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High time India tackled climate change issues
2014-05-25 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asia One: With north-east India sizzling under record heat and the water table falling in many parts of the country, many voters are probably more concerned about their drinking water than the recent election. Soon the country's new government will also have to worry about water and power shortages - issues that never figured in the election debate. Two recent developments should focus policymakers' attention on the issue of climate change and power generation. First, according to a World Health Organisation...
Climate Change Deemed a Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers
2014-05-25 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthout: A quick hit while I focus on more substantive stuff. It seems the military has discovered the dangers lurking in the climate crisis. Or perhaps the media has discovered the military noticing. Id seen reports as far back as 2005 showing the military getting climate crisis advice from consultants. This is far more recent, however. From the New York Times: Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to...
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Philippines: Population growth, climate change link seen
2014-05-25 14:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News Inquirer: The Supreme Court decision declaring the reproductive health law constitutional came at the right moment, in light of evidence that managing the country's population is vital in coping with the impact of climate change, speakers at a health and environment conference here said on Wednesday. Super Typhoon Yolanda had provided policy makers a view of how seriously the poor suffer from extreme weather calamities, Dr. Juan Antonio Perez, executive director for the Commission on Population (Popcom),...
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