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Nothing beats radio for telling Africas climate change stories
2014-10-13 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: A story about the relationship between two farmers and two scientists researching drought recently won Ghanaian journalist Kofi Adu Domfeh the 2014 African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting Award. Domfeh produced a beautiful radio piece covering two human stories. The first covers a groundnut farmer in north-central Ghana who received assistance from a scientist at Ghana's Crop Research Institute. The second takes place in eastern Kenya's drought-ridden Machakos County, where the Kenya...
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Climate change is like Ebola World Bank chief
2014-10-13 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim has compared climate change to Ebola, suggesting that inaction on both is killing people. Speaking at the World Banks annual meeting with the International Monetary Fund, Kim said that the Banks work on climate change was informing its response to the deadly disease, which has killed over 4,000 people mainly in West Africa. Ebola and climate change have a few things in common. Most importantly, we are running out of time to find solutions to both, he said....
Climate change demands 'national effort' to protect Atlantic wild salmon
2014-10-13 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Climate change impacts on Atlantic wild salmon are so severe that a co-ordinated national effort is required to protect the stock, according to Salmon Watch Ireland (SWIRL). The non-governmental organisation, which is dedicated to conservation and restoration to abundance of wild salmon, has called on the Government to establish a national salmon conservation commission to deal with what it describes as a crisis in stock levels. Changes in weather patterns including flash flooding and...
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Tropical Fish Moving Toward Poles Due To Climate Change
2014-10-13 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Climate change and warming of the world's oceans are prompting tropical fish to move toward cooler waters near the poles, according to a study, which predicts that a large number of fish will disappear from the tropics by 2050, if the current trend of changing temperatures continues. As part of the study, researchers at the University of British Columbia, or UBC, in Canada, used the same climate change scenarios as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, to predict a large-scale...
Some parts of state more vulnerable to health effects of climate change
2014-10-13 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In the last century, Minnesota has generally grown warmer and wetter, changes that have big implications for human health. Some Minnesota counties are much more vulnerable than others to health problems associated with climate change, concludes the first county-by-county Minnesota Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment. The Minnesota Department of Health report, released Monday, looks at which counties are most vulnerable to extreme heat, flash flooding and bad air quality. Since 1895,...
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