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Earth Day 2014 focuses on need for 'Green Cities,' fight against climate change
2014-04-23 06:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: Earth Day is an annual event that happens every 22nd of April. This year, the people behind Earth Day are pushing their "Green Cities Campaign" as a viable solution to the problems brought about by climate change. Earth Day Network's Green Cities Campaign was first launched last year in an effort to promote sustainable urban development in cities around the world. The aim of the campaign is to help foster sustainable growth while making a concerted effort to reduce carbon emissions and a city's...
Experts Warn Wildlife Response Climate Change Is Likely Underestimated
2014-04-23 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Analyzing thousands of breeding bird surveys sent in by citizen scientists across the western United States and Canada over 35 years, wildlife researchers report that most of the 40 songbird species they studied shifted either northward or toward higher elevation in response to climate change, but did not necessarily do both. This means that most previous studies of potential climate change impacts on wildlife that looked only at one factor or the other have likely underestimated the effects of...
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Climate Change Affects State, But Legislative Answers Stalled
2014-04-23 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hartford Courant: Climate change has been blamed for raising the sea level and eroding the shoreline, but the issue is a political firestorm so divisive that most legislative efforts have stalled in Congress. U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, both Democrats from Connecticut, have worked to pass legislation that would combat global warming that they say threatens the Nutmeg State. Blumenthal notes that scientifically substantiated climate change will adversely affect agriculture, infrastructure and...
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Planet Earth Is Trolling American Climate Change Activists
2014-04-23 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wire: New data indicates that last month was the world's fourth-warmest March in recorded history. But, apparently to troll American environmental activists, that warmth was obvious everywhere except the United States. This is how temperatures in each part of the globe compared in March, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Most of the Earth's surface area is red to some degree, indicating temperatures above the average temperature the world saw between 1981 and 2010. But...
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Plan to change fracking trespass law
2014-04-22 17:46:25| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Ministers want to give energy firms the right to run shale gas pipes under private land to kick-start fracking.
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