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NZ should expect more droughts - climate change issues minister
2015-06-14 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: New Zealand can expect more droughts as climate change hits home, a government minister said this morning. Tim Groser said it wasn't clear if the current North Canterbury drought was directly linked to carbon emissions but unless humanity solved the ongoing emissions crisis, such destructive weather events were likely to intensify in the years or decades to come. "...The science is very clear on this. The prevalence of these droughts will increase," he told the Q&A programme on TV One. Mr...
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Pope Francis May Find Wariness Among US Bishops on Climate Change
2015-06-14 00:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The church bulletin inserts are nearly ready to go. So are the emails to every Roman Catholic parish in the United States with preaching suggestions for the first Sunday after Pope Francis releases his encyclical on the environment. A week after that, on June 28, churches worldwide are being asked to ring their bells at noon to commemorate a Thank you, Pope Francis march in Rome being held that day. Never before, church leaders say, has a papal encyclical been anticipated so eagerly by so many....
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Hubbard Glacier defies climate change, continues advancing
2015-06-13 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: A Yukon glacier is slowly advancing towards an Alaskan river, setting the stage for an awesome collision of natural forces. If the glacier that originates near Mount Logan in the Yukon continues advancing at its current rate, it could block access to a fiord in Alaska and "strongly impact" the nearby ecosystem. New research from the University of Kansas suggests the Hubbard Glacier could permanently dam the entrance to Russell Fiord, on the Gulf of Alaska, within 25 years. The timeline is the...
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Peru: Scientists say climate change hastened demise of Latin America's oldest civilization
2015-06-13 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Caral, the Americas' oldest civilization, located north of present day Lima, Peru, faced a grave crisis as a result of climate change some 4,000 years ago, archaeologists said. "Droughts were so severe that they could have lasted between 60 and 130 years, which could explain why there were social crises in (civilizations like) Caral, Moche and Tiahuanaco," archaeologist Ruth Shady, director of the Caral Project, told Efe. Women played leading roles in Caral and a team led by Shady has been...
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United Kingdom: Climate change activists occupy Tate Modern's Turbine Hall
2015-06-13 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Activists have occupied Tate Moderns Turbine Hall with the aim of giving an all-night performance criticising BPs sponsorship of the gallery. The group intend to cover the halls 152-metre sloping floor, which once housed the oil-fired turbines of the Bankside power station, with thousands of charcoaled words of warning about climate change. The performers said the art work would take 25 hours to complete, if they manage to remain inside the building, and is timed to coincide with a full...
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