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Aid agencies brace for devastating Mongolian 'dzud' this winter
2016-03-02 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global aid agencies are responding to a call for assistance by Mongolia as harsh winter weather raises fears for the safety and livelihoods of the country's traditional pastoralists, who have already been hit hard by a drought last year. Dry weather has scorched most of Mongolia's wheat crop and now mass animal deaths due to a freezing winter, locally known as "dzud", are threatening more pain for the country, where farming accounts for about 13 percent of the economy. The last dzud in 2009-2010...
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Devastating global coral bleaching event could hit Great Barrier Reef next
2016-02-23 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The third global coral bleaching event to be recorded is snaking its way around a warming globe, devastating reefs and now threatening the world-heritage listed Great Barrier Reef. This week it was announced the bleaching event, which began in 2014, is already the longest in history and could extend well into 2017. We may be looking at a two- to two-and-a-half-year-long event. Some areas have already seen bleaching two years in a row, says Mark Eakin, coordinator of the Coral Reef Watch program...
Climate change politics is blinding us to the devastating effects of dirty air
2016-02-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is the greatest environmental hazard of the age. Nothing focuses our concern for the future more, divides rich and poor, exercises science, business, politicians, old and young. It is an existential threat, a generational battle. All political and financial resources must be concentrated on stopping climate change. But now that governments have signed up to the unambitious Paris climate agreement and pledged to try to limit greenhouse gas emissions, we must ask whether we have lost sight of...
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Long road to recovery after devastating California wildfire
2016-02-16 04:31:39| Real Estate - Topix.net
A real estate agent waits to rebuild her home on the same lot she fled in September, mourning the animals she couldn't save and the family heirlooms she left behind as one of the most devastating wildfires to hit California wiped out her rural subdivision. Another evacuee survived the deadly wildfire with just a singed house, but now faces eviction.
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United Kingdom: Global warming will unleash increasingly devastating floods in coming years, scientists warn
2016-02-02 11:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Climate change made the severe storms which flooded the Somerset Levels in 2014 much more likely, according to new research that suggests global warming will unleash increasingly devastating floods in coming years. The report finds that man-made greenhouse gas emissions have increased the chance of extreme flooding by 43 per cent, as the warming climate holds larger quantities of moisture, which leads to heavier rainfall. What was once a 1 in 100-year event in a world without climate change is...
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