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People of Color Are Already Getting Hit the Hardest by Climate Change
2014-04-22 06:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: Sixty-eight percent of African Americans live within thirty miles of a coal-fired power plant, the zone of maximum exposure to pollutants that cause an array of ailments, from heart disease to birth defects. Communities of color breathe in nearly forty percent more polluted air than whites. African American children are three times as likely to suffer an asthma attack. The NAACP launched its Climate Justice Initiative address the stark numbers head on. Working in conjunction with Little Village...
Spirit Airlines sucks hardest in new complaints survey, but Frontier's gaining fast
2014-04-11 14:35:38| Airlines - Topix.net
We recently told you about the annual Airline Quality Rating study, in which Frontier Airlines got hammered , particularly in the area of customer complaints .
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Climate Impacts Are Going to Hit Developing World Hardest, IPCC Says
2014-04-01 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's leading climate science body, declared in a new report that global warming is wreaking havoc "on all continents and across the oceans," with the worst yet to come. But by far the most severe impacts will strike the poorest countries that bear little or no historical responsibility for causing climate change, the report said. "Those countries who have contributed least to the manifestation of this problem are in jeopardy of being the most vulnerable...
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Heatwaves hurt disadvantaged Australians hardest
2014-03-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Bill McKenzie stands in the corridor on the eighth floor of the government housing complex where he lives, pointing accusingly at a thermometer fastened to the wall. He explains that at 4pm on January 17, as Melbourne sweltered through one of south-east Australia's worst heatwaves, the thermometer read 43 degrees hotter than it was outside. A short, wiry man with a shaved head, McKenzie is wearing a brown long-sleeved T-shirt, reading glasses strung around his neck. In his apartment,...
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Rural communities around world will be hit hardest by climate change -- report
2014-03-28 09:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: From Kenyan subsistence farmers to indigenous peoples in the Bolivian Andes and Brazil's Amazon rainforest, a new report aims to put a human face on what it says are some of the communities hardest hit by global climate change, whose effects will be highlighted in the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings. Using personal stories from seven different countries -- El Salvador, Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, Malawi, Bolivia and the Philippines -- Christian Aid's report,...
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