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The Philippines needs legal defenses to survive climate change
2015-07-06 16:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GMA: The rainy season has come once again and for many communities in the Philippines, this means getting ready for strong typhoons. This also means evacuation, damaged crops, and floods. June to September has always been the months where typhoons visit the country most but with changing weather patterns, typhoon season has extended to November and December. Haiyan happened in November, Hagupit in December. The question is, after all the typhoons weve gone through, after all the lives we have lost,...
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Saving China from itself: How world's biggest polluter dealing with climate change
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The undulating hills of Ningxia have been home for Hai Zhengjun ever since he chiselled out a cave shelter on the side of a ridge with a pickaxe and shovel in the 1970s. The 64-year-old has learned never to take water for granted, having spent all his life rearing sheep and sowing crops of wheat and corn in an area environmentalists identify as among China's driest and most ecologically vulnerable. The central and southern parts of the region, which sprawl across the Loess Plateau and are home...
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Federal rule change threatens Michigan's last big shoe factory
2015-07-06 11:59:48| Footwear - Topix.net
Some of the boots and shoes issued to U.S. soldiers are made in a 66-year-old factory in Big Rapids, the last of its kind in Michigan. The 600-person operation is one of the biggest among a handful of footwear plants supplying the U.S. military.
Climate change is a 'medical emergency'
2015-07-06 07:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mail and Guardian: The world will be up to an average of 5°C warmer by the end of this century. Science says this will utterly change the world and the environment that human beings rely on to live. Numerous reports on that change paint a dystopian future, where humans are constantly assaulted by floods, droughts, crop failures and myriad other ecosystem failures. In the last month several reports have tried to look at the impacts that this change will have on human health. These all point to a world where the diseases...
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Climate change compounding threats to Australia's ecosystems, studies find
2015-07-06 06:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change is compounding existing threats to Australias forests, wetlands and deserts, with several key landscapes now at risk of total collapse, a landmark series of new studies have found. An assessment of 13 ecosystems across Australia, ranging from the wet tropics of far north Queensland to rare shrubland in Western Australia, found what researchers call a worrying climate change impact that adds to existing harm caused by urban development, agriculture and invasive species. The...
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