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New York's Nuclear Path to Combat Climate Change
2015-11-23 16:12:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Aiming for 50 percent Renewables New York state officials hope to use two nuclear plants as part of a pivot to greater reliance on low carbon emitting sources of energy. read more
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Syria war linked to climate change: Britains Prince Charles
2015-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Britain's Prince Charles, who is to give a speech at the start of the UN climate summit in Paris next week, said in an interview out on Monday that the war in Syria could be linked to global warming. "There's very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough, was a drought that lasted for about five or six years,' Charles told SkyNews. He said the drought meant that "huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land'. "Some of us were...
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Climate change and the catastrophic wildfire
2015-11-23 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Over the past several months news of widespread wildfires has coursed through the media from every corner of the world. In the United States, the wildfire season is now two months longer than it was 100 years ago. In 2015 alone, over 9.3 million acres of land have burned in the U.S. (the 2nd largest amount on record) and with current elevated fire risk in California and Texas (as of 11/12/15) that number seems likely to rise by the end of the year. The manifold economic costs of fires to land and...
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How Could Paris Climate Talks Change Africas Future?
2015-11-23 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: On a hot morning in mid-November, giraffes and zebras mingled near a watering hole. Yet elsewhere in this parched game reserve, home to lions and leopards, the scene is far from placid. In what's normally the summer "wet" season, a severe drought has dried up several dams. So territorial males are fighting, literally, for the little water that's left. "It's never been like this before," said senior park ranger Solomzi Radebe, who's been giving tours here for 15 years. Unless a lot of rain falls...
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Why China's 5-year plan won't change garment-making
2015-11-23 11:02:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
China is using a catchy English-language TV ad to promote its 13th Five-Year Plan for the five years to 2020. But does the Plan really tell us how garment-making in China will be affected? asks Mike Flanagan.
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