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Has climate change adaptation lost its way?
2014-04-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Poor farmers regrow trees on their land in the Sahel for food, animal fodder, fuel and crop protection. Communities threatened by rising seas on the Carteret atoll in Papua New Guinea move permanently to Bougainville, the country's main island. The Netherlands devises coastal and river-flood protection schemes with a planning horizon of two centuries. Scientists collaborate to breed new varieties of drought-tolerant maize for Africa. What do these efforts have in common, beyond targeting the rising...
Philippine experts divided climate change action
2014-04-08 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philippine: As governments meet in Berlin, scientists and farmers on the frontline of climate change in the Philippines are at odds over how best to adapt agriculture to the much higher temperatures and weather extremes expected over the next century. While one group argues that hi-tech rice varieties will withstand the greater floods, droughts and storms forecast this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), others say small farmers can best respond by avoiding chemicals and addressing...
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Climate change, coral reefs, deforestation and dengue Climate Change
2014-04-07 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tico Times: The 21st century will present gloomy challenges for Costa Rica and the rest of Latin America, such as the collapse of wildlife habitats, animal extinction, water scarcity and the spread of disease in an already vulnerable population. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid out this forecast on March 31, as one of its region-by-region follow-ups to the September global assessment on climate change. The reports collect over 12,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers...
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Climate Change Will Make it Harder to Grow These 5 Foods
2014-04-07 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Last weeks release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change latest report gave many their first glimpse into how climate change might impact the foods they rely on for nutrition. The report took the spotlight away from extreme weather, exposing food and resource wars as other potential results of the worlds changing climate. If battles for food and water do take place, part of the reason will be a warmer world and the inability for some crops to grow as effectively as they did in the past....
Climate change feedbacks fuel extreme weather
2014-04-07 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: As the world still reels from record breaking disasters around the globe like Phillpine Typhoon Yolanda and the latest extreme flooding in the Solomon Islands, dangerous feedback loops seem to have been put into motion according to the latest report by Paul Beckwith, part-time professor at The University of Ottawa, in his latest YouTube video. Beckwith, part-time professor with the laboratory for paleoclimatology and climatology, department of geography at the University of Ottawa, has become the...
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