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Rich countries must pay their debt on climate change
2015-12-06 17:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: India is here to ensure that rich countries pay back their debt for the overdraft they have drawn on the carbon space, Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said on Sunday. Javadekar said the developing could not let the ongoing UN conference, attended by over 195 countries, fail to reach its objectives. The minister, who came to Paris on Saturday for a second time after having attended the opening plenary when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was here...
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Battling climate change - with worms and soil conservation
2015-12-06 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Nicolas Denieul plants his spade in the ground and turns over a clod of soil to reveal a mass of earthworms seething around plant roots fat ones and thin ones, delicate translucent violet and dark brown. "That is magnificent. Ten years ago, I never thought I'd see anything like that!" said Denieul, a cheerful French farmer, his hands full of earth in the biting wind. For 10 years ago, there were no worms roaming about his land, near the western city of Le Mans, where he grows wheat, corn and...
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A secret weapon to fight climate change: dirt
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: When Will Allen is asked to name the most beautiful part of his Vermont farm, he doesnt talk about the verdant, rolling hills or easy access to the Connecticut River. Though the space is a picturesque postcard of the agrarian idyll, Allen points down, to the dirt. This precious resource not only grows food, he says, but is one of the best methods we have for sequestering carbon. We think of climate change as a consequence of burning fossil fuels. But a third of the carbon in the atmosphere...
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Rising waters prompt Chinas sea change on climate
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: At Pleasant Banyan Bay in China's southern Guangdong province, couples flock by the dozens for elaborately staged wedding photos on the white sand. Large signs on a nearby hotel shout, "Forever." But the love on display here might outlast the sand. A rising sea has narrowed the main beach by 10 metres and scoured around trees, exposing their roots. Smaller beaches on the fringes of the bay have already vanished. "I know the glaciers and the poles are melting and that's why the water is rising,"...
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Science to the rescue on climate change
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wisconsin State Journal: In the hit movie The Martian, an astronaut played by Matt Damon is left for dead on the Red Planet. So in the face of overwhelming odds, Damons character says, Im left with only one option: Im going to have to science the sh-- out of this. And he does, growing potatoes using Martian soil to stay alive and recycling a space probe to communicate with NASA, among other feats of knowledge. Its Hollywood fantasy. Yet a similar can-do attitude (minus the naughty words) has pervaded Paris...
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