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Climate change threatens global health security: UNEP
2014-11-01 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo Asian News Service: The rapid propagation in recent years of infectious diseases such as Malaria, Chikungunya and even Ebola is one more example of how climate change threatens global health security. "Climatic changes also affect temperatures and regional climates, the conditions on which, for instance, in the continent of Africa, mosquitoes may spread from one region to another," Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) , told Efe news agency Friday in a telephone interview from...
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Pakistan: Its time to get serious about climate change
2014-11-01 05:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald Tribune: Sixty-seven years ago, 47 per cent of the land in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) was covered by forests, including tracts of virgin forest land in Neelum Valley. Now, the area has been whittled down to just 12 per cent, as deforestation, landslides and sewage water have swept through the region and destroyed the green belt. In the upper areas of AJK, where there is no liquefied petroleum gas facility, people are cutting the trees to use the wood for fuel in cooking and heating, explained Secretary...
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EPA: Climate change cant be stopped, prepare for wildfires, hurricanes, rising seas
2014-10-31 19:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blaze: The Environmental Protection Agency released a grim report Friday that said it must start planning for the worst possible effects of climate change, and predicted a future world filled with rising sea levels, raging wildfires and more severe storms. All of these factors will combine to create droughts, expose humans to dangerous chemicals and create other conditions that will put the human race at risk. The EPA says climate change can`t be stopped, and is preparing for the worst. "These...
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UN report: Climate change has permanently ruined farmland the size of France
2014-10-31 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: There may be those who feel the apocalyptic plot of the new Hollywood film Interstellar seems a bit far-fetched, with humans forced to look for an alternative planet because this world can no longer feed them. But it has been given credence by a new United Nations report that has found that the destruction of the environment has left an area of farmland the size of France useless for growing crops. Batman director Christopher Nolans latest film may ultimately prove implausible Matthew McConaughey...
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Feds outline climate change plans
2014-10-31 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Obama administration released thousands of pages on Friday documenting federal agencies vulnerabilities to climate change and what those agencies plan to do about it. In all, 38 agencies released climate change adaptation reports and sustainability plans to address climate threats and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the federal government. The Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Postal Service and others charted threats climate change may have...
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