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Climate change hampering world food production
2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The acceleration climate change and its impact on agricultural production means that profound societal changes will be needed in coming decades to feed the world's growing population, researchers at an annual science conference said. According to scientists, food production will have to be doubled over the next 35 years to feed a global population of nine billion people in 2050, compared with seven billion today. Feeding the world "is going to take some changes in terms of minimizing climate...
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Kan. Senate Bill Would Change Which Radioactive Waste Could Go to Landfills
2015-02-16 23:36:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.jcpost.com/">Junction City Post</a> A Senate bill heard by the Kansas Natural Resources Committee would amend the definition of low-level radioactive materials, which would allow waste containing them to be buried in landfills. read more
Climate Change Poised Make Infectious Disease Outbreaks More Frequent
2015-02-16 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: As the catastrophic Ebola outbreak showed the world recently, the modern age of global air travel has made it far easier for disease to spread. But climate change, which is shuffling habitable zones for pathogen-carrying animals, is poised to make future outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola, H1N1 and TB worse, and more frequent. In an article published Sunday in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, two zoologists studying parasites in drastically different environments--one...
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Climate change leading to emergence of infectious disease
2015-02-16 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change is causing the appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, according to a study. Researchers warn that climate change shifts habitats and could lead much more illness emerging in the future. Zoologist Daniel Brooks, who is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conducted the study, which has been published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The research argues that as habitats shift as a result of climate change, wildlife, crops,...
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Bill Nye to MSNBC: Please Just Say the Words Climate Change Now and Then
2015-02-16 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mediaite: In a promo this past week, Fox News mockingly promised to explain Why global warming isnt stopping the snow falling. But Bill Nye the Science Guy thinks all TV news not just Fox could do more to bring the issue of climate change into its everyday coverage, including when its cold outside. Why should we care that it is cold in the winter? MSNBCs Joy Reid said Monday after a report on freezing weather hitting a large portion of the country this week. Well, for one thing the unusual nature...
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