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Rio Olympics puts climate change front and centre
2016-08-07 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Rio de Janeiro is pitching this Olympics as the "green games", as Friday`s opening ceremony made clear. Ceremony director Fernando Meirelles -- best known for the film City of God -- used one of the biggest international platforms going to raise awareness about climate change. Each of the 11,000 competitors was given a seed to plant, which will create an athletes` forest in the Deodoro zone. "Climate change and the depletion of natural resources need our attention and the Olympic Opening...
Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct by Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say
2016-08-07 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to human-caused climate change. The rodent was known to have lived only on Bramble Cay, a minuscule atoll in the northeast Torres Strait, between the Cape York Peninsula in the Australian state of Queensland and the southern shores of Papua New Guinea. The long-tailed, whiskered creature, called...
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Popular culture completely ignores climate change
2016-08-07 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Amitav Ghosh, arguably the foremost Indo-Anglian author of our generation, has penned his latest non-fiction, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, recently. After the elaborate Ibis trilogy, the Hungry Tide author, in his latest book, argues about our 'imaginative failure in the face of global warming'. In a brief conversation with CT on Wednesday at Tollygunge Club, the author spoke about his concerns over the wrath of climate change, his love for authoring non-fiction and...
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Parish guide on ecology gives practical ideas to combat climate change
2016-08-07 20:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Catholic Sun: In his encyclical Laudato Si, on Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis does not mince words: Living our vocation to be protectors of Gods handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience. But what does living that vocation look like for Catholics and how can the faithful go beyond simply recycling bottles and newspapers at home and turning off lights? A new guide draws from more than a dozen countries and cultures to...
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Scientists warn mankind will miss crucial climate change target eight months after agreeing it
2016-08-07 16:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A global warming limit agreed by world leaders with great fanfare is feared to be coming close to being broken just eight months on. Climate change scientists have warned it may be nearly impossible to keep global warming below the 1.5C target set at the Paris negotiations in December after temperatures peaked at 1.38C above pre-industrial levels in February and March. Met Office data analysed by Reading University professor Ed Hawkins showed average global temperatures were more than 1C over...
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