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Climate change: Kiribati turns artificial islands to save nation from Atlantis fate
2016-02-19 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Kiribati is hoping to build artificial islands in a bid of saving the low-lying nation from rising sea levels that look set to turn it into a modern-day Atlantis. President Anote Tong said they are seeking help from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) engineers to work out how they could feasibly create artificial islands to protect the country from future climate change. Kiribati has been on the forefront of climate-change discussions for a number of years. Comprised of 33 atolls and reef islands,...
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UN links climate change to Zika, Ebola
2016-02-19 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The United Nations is urging action on climate change as a way to prevent the spread of diseases like Ebola and the Zika virus. In a speech this week, the executive director of the UNs Environment Programme (UNEP) said officials should take a more aggressive stance toward climate change, highlighting studies that show nearly a quarter of premature deaths around the world can be attributed to environmental problems. The spread of Zika, just as with Ebola, has sent a strong signal to the international...
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Ottawa wants provinces to form 'working groups' on climate change
2016-02-19 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The federal government is hoping to emerge from next month's first minister's conference in Vancouver with an agreement from the provinces and territories to spend the next six months consulting on key areas of climate change the, CBC has learned. But after 10 years of dealing with climate change on their own, some provinces are bristling at the federal government's attempt to insert itself at the centre of the environmental conversation happening March 3 in Vancouver. Sources say the federal...
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Climate change will lead to deformed and virus-hit coral reefs
2016-02-19 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Coral will become deformed and increasingly fall victim to outbreaks of herpes-like viruses as humans continue to pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to two new studies. Combined, the two effects suggest coral reefs will have trouble recovering from bleaching events, like the the world is currently experiencing. When carbon dioxide is emitted from factories, cars and power plants, about 30% of it is absorbed by the ocean. As that happens, the acidity of the oceans increases,...
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Climate change has dropped off the political radar
2016-02-19 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: After Paris, what now? is a comment increasingly heard in conversations with civil society activists, diplomats and government officials. A senior figure involved at the Paris talks asked me recently if Id heard what plans NGOs had to keep the pressure up on leaders through 2016. Theyd heard little. Neither, I confessed, had I. Its a curious state of affairs given last December nearly 200 countries finally agreed to start walking towards a future without fossil fuels. But there are concerns...
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