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Fighting Climate Change with Trees in Africa
2015-12-19 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: When world leaders gathered in Paris and successfully negotiated a pivotal international climate agreement, I was happy to see so many heads of state reaffirm the central role of trees and forest landscape restoration in fighting and adapting to climate change. As an African woman and the daughter of Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, the restoration agenda is very close to me. The movement my mother established has been mobilizing communities for close to 40 years...
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Obama: GOP is the 'only major party in advanced world' to deny climate change
2015-12-18 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: arack Obama chided Republicans on Friday for standing apart from every other rightwing party in the developed world by denying the science of climate change. Obama runs wild with Bear Grylls to promote action on climate change Read more In a confident defence of the Paris climate deal agreed by nearly 200 nations last weekend, Obama predicted that Republican opposition to the accord and the denial of climate change itself will not be sustainable. The American Republican party is the only major...
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GOP will come around on climate change, Obama predicts
2015-12-18 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Times: President Obama predicted Friday that Republicans eventually will come around and embrace his climate-change agenda, despite GOP opposition to global-warming action being as strong as it has ever been. Mr. Obama was questioned at his year-end press conference about the fact his successor could abandon U.S. commitments to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 26 percent by 2025. The U.S. made that formal pledge at a recent climate-change conference in Paris as part of a broader international...
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Climate change rapidly warming world's fresh water supply, study warns
2015-12-18 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily News: The ripple effect of climate change seems to be reaching for the worlds drinking water. Lakes are warming at a faster average rate than oceans and the atmosphere, a new study funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation found. In the largest study of its kind, scientists compiled over 25 years of satellite and ground temperature data on 235 lakes in six continents half of the earth's fresh water supply. "Water from rivers and lakes are really supporting our societies worldwide,"...
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This Is the Missing Ingredient in the Climate Change Fight
2015-12-18 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: I recently returned home from Paris, where I participated in a number of events around the climate-change conference that used food to tell the story of climate change and highlight potential solutions. The city had the crazed but celebratory feeling of a wedding, with plenty of planning boiling down to a final, frantic push to cross the finish line. But just as marriage is only the beginning of a new kind of life, it turns out the finish line is actually the starting lineand the real work begins...
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