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As Extreme Weather Sweeps Across U.S., Is New Democratic Platform on Climate Change Too Weak?
2016-06-29 10:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now: Extreme weather is sweeping across the United States, from scorching heat in the Southwest to uncontrollable wildfires in California, to deadly flooding in Appalachia. In West Virginia, at least 23 people have died in once-in-a-thousand-year flooding, and a number of people remain missing across the state. Meanwhile, wildfires are raging up and down the state of California. At least two people have died, and hundreds of homes have been destroyed. May was the 13th straight month to smash global temperature...
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North American Leaders to Discuss Climate Change in Canada
2016-06-29 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Climate change will be a priority during President Barack Obama's discussions in Canada Wednesday as he attends a North American Leaders' Summit in Ottawa. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto will join Obama in announcing a continent-wide climate partnership aimed at generating half of North America's electricity from non-carbon sources by 2025. Currently just over a third of the continent's electricity comes from clean energy sources such as wind, solar,...
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'Devastated': scientists too late to captive breed mammal lost to climate change
2016-06-29 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Bramble Cay melomys has become more famous in extinction than it ever was in life. A mouse-like rodent, the melomys amazingly survived on a 3.6 hectare grass-covered cay (a low-lying island in a coral reef) in Australias Great Barrier Reef like a ratty Robinson Crusoe for thousands of years. There, it thrived off just a few plant species until human-caused climate change--in the form of rising sea levels and increasing inundations of sea water on the low-lying island--wiped it off the planet....
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Climate change 'most serious' environmental issue for New Zealand - report
2016-06-29 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Stuff: Climate change is a global problem. Urban areas are key to reducing carbon emissions, says an environmental report. Climate change is the most serious environmental issue New Zealanders face, according to a new report by the Environment Commissioner. Dr Jan Wright said there was "no question" climate change was worrying and had flow-on effects, in her commentary on the government's Environment Aotearoa 2015 report. That report had singled out rapid growth in dairy farmland and surging carbon...
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Australia: Tragic lack of leadership put red hot climate change out in the cold
2016-06-29 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If ever there was going to be a climate change election, surely this was going to be it. As May came and the election date was announced, the implications of the global Paris agreement between more than 190 countries just months earlier were still resonating the world was moving away from fossil fuels and the challenge to keep global warming well below 2C was agreed. The globe had just had its hottest year on record. April was the 12th consecutive month to break global heat records. In Australia,...
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