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The Vulnerable 20 Group: coalition of 20 countries threatened by climate change
2016-05-31 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boing Boing: Reps from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Vietnam just gathered in Peru to announce the formation of the "Vulnerable 20" group, a coalition of 20 nations threatened by climate change. The group's major inaugural activity will be formalizing accounting principles for expressing the economic losses from climate change, and then to establish...
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Saving Nemo: How climate change threatens anemonefish and their homes
2016-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation: Anemonefish, or clownfish, were made famous by the 2003 Disney-Pixar film Finding Nemo, and are about to play a starring role in the sequel, Finding Dory. They are well known for their special relationship with anemones, which provide a safe place to call home. But anemonefish face a number of threats. Some researchers have warned of an increase in the wild-caught anemonefish trade, as happened following Finding Nemo. Anemones, on which anemonefish depend, are threatened by warming seas in...
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Lake Meads Low Levels Wrongly Blamed on Climate Change
2016-05-31 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Breitbart: Whenever there is a new record set, whether rain, hurricane, drought, etc., those in the climate change alarmist camp seem to be quick to point to global warming as the cause and make more dire predictions regarding the future. Such is the case with Lake Mead. On May 20, the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced that the nation's largest reservoir reached an all-time low. The current level slipped below the previous record set in June 2015. Despite reports of the mismanagement of the important...
Japan isolated as G7 eyes tougher climate change targets
2016-05-31 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Last years G7 in Germany marked a turning point in the run up to the historic Paris climate summit. For the first time a completely fossil-fuel free economy was talked about by world leaders. The transition from high to zero carbon energy sources moved from the civil society wish-list onto the headlines of a communiqué at a major summit. It was too much to hope that Japan would show the same level of drive this year, and so it proved. Their homework list on climate is solid but unspectacular,...
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How Indian soldiers are fighting climate change
2016-05-31 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Eco Task Force has planted 65 million trees in the past 30 years, government claims, in an initiative to rehabilitate forests As part of its effort to improve forest cover and so soak up climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions, the government in India has an unlikely partner the Indian Army. At the UN climate conference in Paris last December, India made enlarging and improving its forest cover a central part of its pledge on fighting climate change. One of the many agencies apart...
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