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Climate change causing a headache for Assam tea growers in India
2015-06-12 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The blistering afternoon sun beats down on my face. Normally by this time of day in May, dark clouds would be gathering, preparing for an almighty downpour. But there are no clouds in sight. The lush-green, perfectly manicured tea plants extend as far as my eyes can see. Women wearing woven bamboo hats are dotted around the plantation, plucking leaves and putting them in baskets attached to their backs. The work looks gruelling in this heat. And there's trouble brewing in the plantations of...
Climate change a great risk to food security'
2015-06-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Times: The Climate Change Ministry and World Food Programme (WFP) have agreed to work together to address climate risks to agriculture sector and issues of escalating food insecurity and malnutrition in the country. Boosting agriculture productivity cannot be achieved as long as the sector is not climate-resilient and able to sustain climate-induced disasters, such as floods, heavy rains, hailstorms and shifting weather patterns, said WFP Country Director Lolo Castro during her meeting with Climate Change...
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Ancient Ice Sheet Collapse Triggered Strong Climate Change
2015-06-12 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: With climate change already impacting various parts of the world, scientists have started looking into Earth's past in order to better predict how it will affect our future. To add to growing evidence, a new study has found that ice sheet collapse 135 million years ago triggered events of strong global climate change. The Cretaceous period, 145 to 66 million years ago, was one of the warmest times in Earth's history - though some say it was interrupted with a significant cold snap. During this...
Polar bears 'have started eating dolphins due to climate change'
2015-06-12 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Polar bears have been spotted eating dolphins in the Arctic for the first time ever by Norwegian scientists, who believe global warming could have caused the bears to expand their diet. Polar bears feed mainly on seals but Jon Aars at the Norwegian Polar Institute has photographed dolphins being devoured by a bear and published his findings in the latest edition of Polar Research this month. "It is likely that new species are appearing in the diet of polar bears due to climate change because new...
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The pain of producing global climate change deal
2015-06-12 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: "It's like having a baby, you don't know what it will look like until it is born." Laurence Tubiana, French special representative for the 2015 Paris climate conference, used a surprising analogy in a news conference at the Bonn climate talks when asked what sort of agreement might be struck. After almost two weeks of negotiations in the German city, progress towards a new international climate deal, set for inking in Paris, appears to be moving slowly. If all goes to plan, the baby will come...
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