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Kerry: Climate change as urgent as ISIS, Ebola
2014-09-23 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Secretary of State John Kerry said the threats posed by climate change should be addressed with as much "immediacy" as confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and the Ebola outbreak. During a meeting with foreign ministers on Sunday, Kerry said global warming is creating "climate refugees." "We see people fighting over water in some places. There are huge challenges to food security and challenges to the ecosystem, our fisheries and ... the acidification of the ocean is a challenge...
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U.N. chief detects 'sense of anxiety' on climate change
2014-09-22 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: On the eve of Tuesday's U.N. climate summit, the United Nations chief underscored the urgent need to tackle climate change by moving toward an energy-efficient, low-carbon global economy. Speaking at the opening of Climate Week NYC, a set of more than 140 climate-related events across the city, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had noticed much more urgency to address climate change than he had seen in previous U.N. gatherings on the issue in 2007 and in 2009, when governments...
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Ahead UN summit climate change, businesses press market-based solutions
2014-09-22 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Hundreds of corporations, insurance companies and pension funds are calling on world leaders gathering for a U.N. summit on climate change this week to attack the problem by making it more costly for businesses and ordinary people to pollute. The idea, long advocated by policymakers, economists and environmental activists, is that the world can't hope to slow the heating of the planet until its cost is incorporated into the everyday activities that contribute to it, such as using gas- or coal-generated...
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Different Distillers Grains May Change Feed Rations
2014-09-22 20:50:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: University of Missouri Extension Ethanol plants are getting more efficient at extracting fuel from corn, and that can affect the quality of distillers grains, a byproduct of ethanol production often used as an economical feed alternative for hogs and poultry. read more
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US to put climate change 'front & center' diplomatic efforts
2014-09-22 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US secretary of state, John Kerry, promised to put climate change front and center of American diplomacy on Monday, raising expectations for this weeks United Nations climate summit. A day before the first world leaders meeting on climate change in five years, Kerry said he would take it upon himself to make sure the international community steps up to deal with the threat. This is an enormous challenge, and this is why the United States is prepared to take the lead in order to bring...
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