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Climate Change Challenged While Reported Threat On Agriculture Released
2016-03-05 07:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: The "climate" around the climate change debate has, for a long time, been touted as polarized among party lines. While the debate has both supporters and those who deny the existence of climate change, scientists have had to invest a lot of time and energy in order to prove that it is a topic that needs to be taken seriously. For instance, just recently The Lancet produced a climate change report led by Dr. Marco Springmann, who provides a country-by-country breakdown of its impact on food sources,...
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The burning issue in climate change
2016-03-05 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The idea of ethical investment has been around for several decades. High-profile campaigns saw charities withdraw their investments from the armaments and tobacco industries, for example, and from South Africa under the apartheid regime. Ethical investment has had a new target in the past few years, as environmental campaigners have encouraged charities, universities and other public-interest organisations to exclude fossil-fuel industries from their investment portfolios. They see fossil-fuel...
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Premiers' climate change meeting long on principles, short on specifics
2016-03-05 03:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Justin Trudeau handled Canadas internal climate-change talks with premiers like those international summits on the same issue: He took the half-loaf of vague principles that he could get and claimed progress, noting that there is an agreement to keep trying for more. The difference is that the Prime Minister has more power to use this deal to get what he wants next time than any host of United Nations talks ever did. No, Mr. Trudeau didnt get premiers to sign on to a specific national carbon...
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India Will Be One Of The Worst Hit Countries By Climate Change
2016-03-05 00:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
India Times: India will be among the worst hit countries and face a large number of deaths due to reduced crop productivity, according to a new study on climate change by the University of Oxford. A modelling study estimates climate change could kill more than 500,000 adults worldwide in 2050. The study from the university's Martin Future of Food programme was published on Thursday in the medical journal 'The Lancet'. The countries that would be worst affected by this crisis are low- income and middle-income...
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Helping communities in arid and semi-arid lands to respond to climate change
2016-03-05 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IPP Media: In some parts of Singida, Dodoma, Shinyanga and Manyara regions, all of which form part of the semi-arid region of Tanzania, the rainy season in 2014/15 did not start in November as expected. This had been the case in at least six previous seasons. The situation which experts have linked to climate change has had devastating impacts of on the lives and livelihoods of many Tanzanians but dryland communities have been and are set to be among the worst affected. The people living in the drylands...
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