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Climate change makes a comeback with the help of social media
2016-06-14 07:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation AU: In what has been shaping up as the election that forgot climate change, there are signs emerging in the Coalitions election campaign that it is starting to listen to polls, its own focus groups and social media chat on climate. So far it is the Great Barrier Reef that has drawn out the biggest campaign fight on climate. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that A$1 billion of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) fund would be directed towards a Reef Fund. 10% of the money from...
Human-induced climate change wipes out first mammal species: Study
2016-06-14 06:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kathmandu Post: Human-induced climate change appears to have driven the Great Barrier Reef's only endemic mammal species into the history books, according to a report published in The Guardian. In an exclusive report by the British News portal, the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent that lives on a tiny island in the eastern Torres Strait, which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea, has been completely wiped-out from its only known location. The rodent, also called the mosaic-tailed...
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Watching climate change is the key to predicting the next Zika
2016-06-13 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Post: British scientists say they have developed a model that can predict outbreaks of zoonotic diseases those such as Ebola and Zika that jump from animals to humans based on changes in climate. Describing their model as "a major improvement in our understanding of the spread of diseases from animals to people", the researchers said it could help governments prepare for and respond to disease outbreaks, and to factor in their risk when making policies that might affect the environment. "Our...
05/02/12 -- 'Warming Hole' Delayed Climate Change Over Eastern United States
2016-06-13 17:37:22| pollutiononline Home Page
05/02/12 Pollution Online Newsletter
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Air pollution and impacts on women's and children's health and climate change
2016-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Cooking and eating--caring for our families at home, moving onto work, school and markets, and then back home again. These are universal rituals that fill our days and the lives of people the world over. And yet there is an unrecognized health threat lurking in the shadows of our most basic routines: air pollution. It may appear as a faint haze on the urban horizon. Or it may be visible, as black and billowing smoke pouring out of the kitchen of a poor rural home. According to the latest World...
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