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Minnesota must do more to cut greenhouse gas linked to climate change -
2016-07-21 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Minnesota Public Radio: Officials in Gov. Mark Dayton's administration say Minnesota should look at strengthening its renewable energy law. The state is on track to meet a requirement of 25 percent renewable electricity generation by 2025. But that has not been enough to help reach another state goal: a major reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change. Republicans and Democrats came together in 2007 to act on climate change. The Minnesota Legislature passed goals that -- at the time -- were among...
Climate change: Greenland loses a trillion tonnes of ice in four years as melting rate triples
2016-07-21 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Its no news that Greenland is in serious trouble -- but now, new research has helped quantify just how bad its problems are. A satellite study, published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the Greenland ice sheet lost a whopping 1 trillion tonnes of ice between the years 2011 and 2014 alone. And a big portion of it came from just five glaciers, about which scientists now have more cause to worry than ever. Its the latest story in a long series of increasingly...
How Markets Can Help Us Adapt to Climate Change
2016-07-21 09:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: We are on course to set another record for the hottest year, the third year in a row, and 2016 may well have the most billion dollar weather disasters. Adaptation to a changing climate looks both necessary and inevitable. Adaptation is most successful when we let markets identify the best opportunities to protect us. Markets have helped society conquer countless challenges, including the discovery of drugs to protect against new diseases, innovations to solve communications problems, and more. But...
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North American forests not the climate change remedy hoped for - study
2016-07-20 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: North American forests will not fight climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide at levels once hoped for because the trees may not grow big enough, a study said on Wednesday. The new research challenges previous studies that said trees could grow larger due to higher temperatures brought on by global warming, said the authors of the study published in the journal Ecology Letters. Typically, up to a tharizird of carbon-dioxide emissions from human activity, such as automobile driving or steel production,...
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Event: 3rd Annual Hackathon on Climate Change
2016-07-20 04:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PC Tech: Makerere University School of Public Health -- Resilient Africa Network (RAN) in collaboration with AidData Center for Development Policy (AidData); and National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA U ) have organized the 3rd Annual Hackathon on Climate Change on 22nd July 2016 from 7:30am to 6:00pm at RAN Lab (Plot 30 Upper Kololo Terrace opposite Kololo Airstrip -- Makerere University School of Public Health Annex). The Resilient Africa Network (RAN) funded by USAID is a partnership...
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