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Apple reveals environmental progress and warns that climate change is real
2014-04-23 10:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Tech giant Apple has outlined a range of improvements to its sustainability credentials and warned that climate change is real and is a problem. The company also claimed that it wants to leave the world in a better state than how it found it. Apple revealed that 94% of its corporate facilities and 100% of its data centres are now powered by clean energy sources. It also said that it had cut the energy use of its products by 57% and had worked to remove toxins, such as PVC, brominated flame...
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Senate holds Miami Beach hearing on climate change
2014-04-23 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: South Florida officials testified Tuesday before a U.S. Senate subcommittee that they're already shouldering the burdens of rising sea levels and they need state and federal partners to do more to help adapt their coastline to the effects of climate change. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., was the only member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation's subcommittee on science and space to make the trip to Miami Beach City Hall. "I specifically wanted to come here because this is...
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Draft climate change legislation to tighten carbon pledges
2014-04-23 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Draft climate change legislation to be published today contains several key changes that will tighten the States obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The heads of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Bill will be unveiled today by Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan. Earlier versions of the planned legislation were criticised by a number of organisations campaigning in this area because they contained no specific medium-term or long- term targets for the key dates of...
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Climate change fight our lives
2014-04-23 09:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This is a story about bad timing. One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses. The migration patterns of many songbird species, for instance, have evolved over millennia so that eggs hatch precisely when food...
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Vilsack:Agriculture unfairly blamed climate change
2014-04-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said today that agriculture tends to take the brunt of criticism about climate change, but the industry contributes only 9 percent of the greenhouse gases blamed for a warming planet. "Everyone assumes what's happening globally is happening nationally," said Vilsack, a keynote speaker at Drake University forum on climate change. "Clearly, there are challenges globally in terms of agriculture and its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. That's not necessarily...
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