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Russia most hit by climate change
2015-12-25 12:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Bulletin: Russia is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, the environment ministry said Friday, sounding an alarm on the rise in floods and wildfires nationwide. A government report on environmental protection said temperatures in Russia had warmed by 0.42 degrees Celsius per decade since 1976, or 2.5 times higher than the global warming trend of 0.17 degrees. "Climate change leads to growth of dangerous meteorological phenomena," the ministry said in a comment to the report published...
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Progress to fight climate change must continue
2015-12-25 06:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: America's children have lots to celebrate this holiday season with climate victories both at home and abroad. The global climate agreement reached in Paris will help reduce the health threats posed by climate change, including extreme temperatures, poor air quality and more frequent deadly extreme weather events. At home, the Environmental Protection Agency is looking out for our children through America's Clean Power Plan, which sets the first federal limits on carbon pollution from power...
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Report: All Major Oil Companies Knew of Climate Change by 1970s
2015-12-24 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now!: A new investigation by the Pulitzer Prize-winning outlet InsideClimate News suggests that nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company was aware of the impact of fossil fuels on climate change as early as the late 1970s. Earlier exposés by InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times have revealed that Exxon scientists knew about climate change as early as 1977, and for decades Exxon concealed its own findings that the burning of fossil fuels causes global warming, alters the climate...
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Southwest's Conifers Face Trial By Climate Change
2015-12-24 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: As you sit round the Christmas tree, consider the TLC you give O Tannenbaum: plenty of water and a relatively comfortable climate. Wouldn't want to dry out the tree, after all. Now consider that in the house we all live inthe planetwere hardly giving the same courtesy to your Christmas tree's wild cousins. (Who, I might add, are actually still alive.) As the planet warms, droughts are getting even drierand they're getting hotter too. In fact it's getting so bad that researchers are now forecasting...
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As Climate Change Imperils Winter, the Ski Industry Frets
2015-12-24 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The typical scene at New England ski resorts over Christmas vacation--madhouses filled with students as young as 2 or 3 packing onto bunny hills while parents head to higher elevations for their first runs of the season--has been replaced by a sobering reminder that climate change is already taking a bite out of winter. Most mountains in the northeast this December are covered in brown, not white. Killington Ski Resort in central Vermont has 24 of its 155 trails open. Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine...
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