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Climate Change Could Make Crops Toxic
2016-05-27 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: By now, it`s fairly well-established that climate change is going to be a major challenge for food production. Rising temperatures are set to severely damage crop yields, lessen the nutritional value of important crops, and make large portions of the planet inhospitable to crop production. And some studies argue that it won`t be easy to innovate our way out of these problems, with data suggesting that developed countries have a more difficult time maintaining yields during droughts and heat waves...
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Trump: America First on Fossil Fuels, Last on Climate Change
2016-05-27 16:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate: Donald Trump vowed Thursday that if elected president he would dismantle the landmark global treaty to tackle climate change endorsed by the whole world in Paris last year. Instead, he promised the domestic fossil fuel industry a no-holds-barred, America-first development policy aimed at maximizing production of coal, oil and natural gas. Speaking on the day he clinched the delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination, Trump delivered his first substantive speech on energy and climate...
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ExxonMobil is in its climate change bunker and wont let reality in
2016-05-27 13:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When one of the worlds largest pension funds tells the biggest oil company on the planet that it faces an existential threat, there are stormy times ahead. The Guardian wanted to give you the latest weather report from inside ExxonMobils annual general meeting in Dallas on Wednesday, but the newspapers reporter was banned. Battening down the hatches and whistling as the winds of climate change threaten its business has been the oil giants strategy for decades. The problem for ExxonMobil is,...
Brazils impeachment crisis is bad news for climate change
2016-05-27 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It may be hard to recall amid all the bad news coming from Brazil these days -- the country`s worst recession in 30 years, its unprecedented corruption crisis, and above all the May 12 Senate vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and begin an impeachment trial against her -- but this country has in recent years occupied a position of critical global leadership on climate change. Brazil is the worlds biggest reducer of greenhouse gas emissions, having slashed Amazon deforestation about 80 percent...
Climate change threatens existence of World Heritage icons
2016-05-27 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Iconic monuments, glorious national parks and colorful coral reefs are all in danger of being wiped off the map as rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and intensive storms take hold due to climate change. Rapa Nui National Park, Easter Island, Chile The moai statues of Easter Island attract than 60,000 visitors every year. But coastal erosion and rising sea levels mean the iconic structures could be in danger of falling into the sea. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda A little...
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