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Climate change boosts rain in Africa's Sahel region: study
2015-06-01 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rising greenhouse gases have boosted rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa, easing droughts that killed 100,000 people in the 1970s and 1980s, in a rare positive effect of climate change, a study said on Monday. The report adds to debate about the causes of a greening of the Sahel region, south of the Sahara Desert from Senegal to Sudan. It said a continued rise in greenhouse gas emissions was likely to help more rainfall in the region in future. "Amounts of rainfall have recovered substantially,"...
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Europe's energy big six say gas must help fight against climate change
2015-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The bosses of Europes six largest energy companies, including BP and Shell, have said gas should play a vital role in plans to tackle global warming, in a rare public intervention aimed at influencing UN talks. In a letter to the Financial Times, the energy companies also called for widespread and effective carbon pricing to be part of the solution that emerges from crucial climate talks in Paris taking place at the end of the year. The letter is signed by Ben van Beurden, the chief executive...
Super typhoons to increase in strength with climate change, researchers find
2015-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: A warming planet is already stoking the intensity of tropical cyclones in the north-west Pacific and their ferocity will continue to increase even with moderate climate change over this century, an international research team has found. A study covering 850 typhoons in the region found the intensity of the damaging storms has increased by about 10 per cent since the 1970s, said Wei Mei, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and...
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Climate Change Meeting To Focus On Ensuring Countries Keep Commitments
2015-06-01 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The world's governments are meeting today in Bonn, Germany, to work on a U.N. agreement to tackle climate change, a day after European energy companies urged them to adopt a pricing system for carbon emissions. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce, who is reporting on the story for our Newscast unit, says the meeting in Bonn is part of the run-up to a major climate summit being held in Paris at the end of the year. Here's more from Nell: "Negotiators from nearly 200 countries have gathered in Bonn. They're...
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Doctors union mounts push for government action tackle climate change
2015-06-01 05:04:59| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The powerful doctors lobby group is set to ramp up pressure on the federal government to take action on climate change. Australian Medical Association vice president Stephen Parnis says a working group has been established to revamp the group's climate policy before the UN climate change conference in Paris this year. "We would like Australia's targets and priorities to be informed by AMA policy and influenced by AMA advocacy," he told doctors at the AMA's national conference in Brisbane on...
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