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People of Color Are Already Getting Hit the Hardest by Climate Change
2014-04-22 06:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: Sixty-eight percent of African Americans live within thirty miles of a coal-fired power plant, the zone of maximum exposure to pollutants that cause an array of ailments, from heart disease to birth defects. Communities of color breathe in nearly forty percent more polluted air than whites. African American children are three times as likely to suffer an asthma attack. The NAACP launched its Climate Justice Initiative address the stark numbers head on. Working in conjunction with Little Village...
04.22.14 -- 10 Ways 3D Printing Could Change Space Missions
2014-04-21 13:00:13| rfglobalnet News Articles
04/22/14 RF Globalnet Newsletter
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SM Energy Announces Plans To Collect And Disclose Emissions Data, Resulting In Withdrawal Of Stockholder Climate Change Proposal
2014-04-21 06:55:07| pollutiononline Home Page
SM Energy Company announces that, as the result of its conversations with Mercy Investments, Mercy has elected to withdraw its stockholder resolution concerning a Climate Change Mitigation Plan proposed to be submitted at the Company’s 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
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Setbacks Aside, Climate Change Is Finding Its Way Into the World's Classrooms
2014-04-20 18:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: From Mauritius to Manitoba, climate change is slowly moving from the headlines to the classroom. Schools around the world are beginning to tackle the difficult issue of global warming, teaching students how the planet is changing and encouraging them to think about what they can do to help slow that process. Strapped school budgets, concerns about overburdening teachers and political opposition to what in some places is a contentious subject have complicated the spread of lessons on climate change....
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With Climate Change, Wildfires Getting Worse in the West
2014-04-20 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Across the western United States, wildfires grew bigger and more frequent in the past 30 years, according to a new study that blames climate change and drought for the worsening flames. "It's not just something that is localized to forest or grasslands or deserts," said lead study author Phil Dennison, a geographer at the University of Utah. "Every region in the West is experiencing an increase in fire. These fire trends are very consistent with everything we know about how climate change should...
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