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Climate Change Is Already Costing Us Billions of Dollars Every Year
2015-10-25 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: Climate change has already begun to cost us, and its only going to get worse. Hurricanes, intensified in size and frequency by climate change, are taking a massive financial toll already, according to a new paper. The study, published in Nature Geoscience this week, found that an increase in property dollar amounts lost over the past several decades in a case study was due to hurricanes intensified by global warming. Conducted by researchers from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma in Mexico and...
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Can we save the snow leopard from climate change?
2015-10-25 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: In a report published this week, the World Wildlife Fund suggests the snow leopard is in serious danger from climate change, with as few as 2,500 breeding adults left in the wild. Their habitat spans across rocky, mountainous terrain in 12 central Asian countries. Climate change will further threaten the already endangered species, by encouraging local communities to migrate up the mountains, into snow leopard territory. Increased habitat loss and degradation, poaching and conflict with communities...
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Australia: Turnbull must act on climate change: ALP
2015-10-25 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's attendance at the United Nations climate change conference doesn't change Australia's "low ambition" to tackle the problem, Labor believes. Mr Turnbull intends to head to Paris for the major global conference in December, armed with a 2030 emissions reduction target of 26-28 per cent on 2005 levels. It's a target set by his predecessor Tony Abbott, who was widely predicted to skip the meeting after his government scrapped Labor's carbon tax and reduced Australia's...
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Canadian govt hinders scientists from talking about climate change
2015-10-24 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Herald: Half of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem lies in Canada, where much of the water feeding the gulf and affecting its temperature comes from. Getting information about scientific research relevant to the future of the ecosystem isnt easy, however, because of the outgoing Canadian governments controversial policies that have prevented government scientists from speaking freely with journalists, and sometimes from speaking at all. While researching this six-part series on climate change in the gulf,...
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ExxonMobil Targets Journalists and Activists After Climate Change Investigation
2015-10-24 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: After an investigation found that ExxonMobil has been funding climate-denying organizations--despite the findings of its own scientists on climate change--the worlds fourth-largest oil company is now going after the journalists who revealed it. Evidence that ExxonMobil has been deliberately leading a campaign of misinformation about climate change for decades began cropping up after InsideClimate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning publication, led an investigation into the company. Shortly after...
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