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Reshaping mountains in the human mind to save species facing climate change
2015-05-18 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] People commonly perceive mountain ranges as jumbles of pyramid-shaped masses that steadily narrow as they slope upward. While that's certainly how they appear from a ground-level human viewpoint, new research shows that pyramid-shaped mountains are not only a minority in nature, but also that most ranges actually increase in area at higher elevations. Besides reshaping the mountains in our mind's eye, the findings could lead scientists to reconsider conservation…
Climate Week Paris: no economic growth unless we tackle climate change, says Unilever boss
2015-05-18 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Business leaders and investors have gathered in Paris this week to discuss and demand climate measures to ensure long-term economic and environmental sustainability. The Climate Week Paris is organised by the Climate Group ahead of crucial UN talks in December 2015, when global leaders will gather in the French capital to discuss a binding agreement to keep global warming under the 2C threshold. The event gathers business, finance and political leaders to set out a series of recommendations...
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NY senator to hold climate change panel
2015-05-18 09:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: New Yorkers who have been personally impacted by climate change are coming to Albany to share their stories. The residents are just a few of the individuals expected to attend a meeting Monday by a climate change panel led by Democratic state Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan. The group includes scientists, policy experts and legal scholars studying the state's response to climate change. Among other topics, the panel is expected to review the state's progress in curbing carbon emissions and discuss...
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Bangladesh: Dhaka slum dwellers among most vulnerable climate change
2015-05-18 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: The government should formulate a policy for bettering water and sanitation services in slums and coordinating relevant non-government organisations' activities, speakers told a workshop yesterday. Stakeholders' collaboration will expedite the urban climate resilience process and reduce overlapping of activities, they said, adding that the five million slum dwellers in Dhaka were the most vulnerable to and affected by climate change. The daylong workshop revealed findings of a research on these...
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'Disaster after disaster' hits Marshall Islands climate change kicks in
2015-05-18 08:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: They came and told us to evacuate to the next house, which is stronger, because there will be a flood. The tide went up to the front porch and I was scared because of the big waves, said 7-year-old Keslynna Myo Sibok, a resident of Majuro, the capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands -- a remote chain of 29 low-lying coral atolls and five islands that lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and has found itself on the front lines of climate change. Keslynna sat in the front yard of her...
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