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Hotter and more unpredictable: Climate change already affecting Earth
2014-12-02 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and just downright wilder. U.S. and China reach historic climate change agreement Obama urges world to follow U.S. lead on climate change The numbers are stark. Carbon dioxide emissions: up 60 percent. Global temperature: up six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit. Population: up...
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98 percent Costa Ricans believe in climate change, says UN survey
2014-12-02 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tico Times: Nearly every single Costa Rican surveyed by the United Nations Development Program said they agreed the climate is changing, and more than 90 percent said that humans are at least partially responsible. The survey results released Monday also showed that Costa Ricans would be willing to pay more to reduce their impact on the planet. (See a PDF of the survey in Spanish here) Costa Ricas reputation as a green country is well established. The country made a name for itself in the eco-tourism field...
Sri Lanka's budding real estate industry aims to change Colombo's skyline
2014-12-02 01:41:49| Real Estate - Topix.net
COLOMBO: Real estate in Sri Lanka has become an attractive post-war investment option attracting major foreign investment. Backed by development initiatives launched by the government and ambitious plans afoot by the private sector, its future looks promising.
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US sees voluntary emissions cuts key climate change accord
2014-12-02 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The United States is championing a new international approach to cutting greenhouse gases that offers the best chance of prompting countries to take action to avert the worst effects of global warming, the nation's chief climate negotiator said Monday. The comments by the State Department's Todd Stern came as United Nations negotiations began in Peru to develop the framework for an international accord to curtail heat-trapping emissions and adapt to changes already occurring on the planet. The...
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These Mammals Are Hit Hard By Climate Change
2014-12-01 23:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: December`s here and snowshoe hares are putting on their white winter coats as they`ve done for countless generations. But because climate change is transforming their environment much faster than evolution can react to it, the species is increasingly out-of-sync with its landscape: As snows arrive later and melt earlier, the hares, whose coloration change is thought to be triggered by the changing length of days, not the actual temperature and precipitation around them, are turning white when their...
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