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Climate Change + Population Growth + Economic Expansion = More Severe Flooding
2016-04-06 19:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Already the most destructive and deadly of all natural disasters, science tells us that flooding events will increase in frequency and intensity with climate change. Meanwhile population pressures will continue to see more and more building in low-lying coastal areas and flood plains. Investment in adequate defenses will need to grow massively to protect against this advancing threat. The engineering challenge comes when excess water, usually from too much rainfall or melting snow, flows where...
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Cities Are the Front Lines for Action on Climate Change
2016-04-06 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TIME: Jackie Biskupski is the Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Cindy Lerner is the Mayor of Pinecrest, Fla. From the intermountain West to the subtropical Florida peninsula, we must unite to cut carbon emissions When it comes to confronting the challenge of climate change, cities are on the front lines. From rising seas submerging coastal property to precipitation changes in the desert, climate impacts are here--and undeniably local. Climate change may have once been the ultimate slow-moving...
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Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua
2016-04-06 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: A three-year drought, added to massive deforestation in the past few decades, has dried up most of Nicaragua's water sources and has led to an increasingly severe water supply crisis. Since January, photos and videos showing dried-up streams, rivers and lakes have been all over the social networks, local news media, blogs and online bulletins of environmental organisations. Jaime Incer, a former minister of the environment and natural resources and the president of the Nicaraguan Foundation...
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Soil crisis brought about by climate change may hit global food production, claims alarming new research
2016-04-06 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The world is facing a soil crisis that could badly hit food production, according to alarming new research. A 17-year study into the effect of global warming on microbes the tiny bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms that determine soil health reveals them to be far less adaptable to changing conditions than expected. It raises concerns the microbes will not be able to carry out essential functions, such as breaking down leaves and other organic matter in a process which converts them...
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John Kerry Urges Business to Act on Climate Change
2016-04-06 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TIME: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday called on private businesses to move rapidly away from fossil fuels--both to prevent devastating climate change and to drive global economic growth. "If we're going to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, we have to accelerate this transition," Kerry said in a speech. "When we talk about the future of energy, we are actually talking about the future of everything." The address, delivered at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New...
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