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Cyclone Pam Destroys Agriculture, Kills Pigs in Vanuatu
2015-03-24 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
VANUATU - Strong winds, heavy rains and floods resulting from Tropical Cyclone Pam have caused extensive damage to agriculture throughout Vanuatu, including the main food and export crops, livestock, and fisheries infrastructure, said the FAO.
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Climate future: fewer but more intense cyclones predicted aftermath of Pam
2015-03-21 02:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: As Cyclone Pam tore its way through the South Pacific last weekend, Fiji Meteorological Service which had oversight for the catastrophic storm, assigned a "category 6" for one stage of its map tracking the tempest over Vanuatu. Pam was certainly a monster , with one-minute winds reaching 145 knots (268 km/h) and its core pressure dropping below 900 hectopascals - a rare event on both counts in the region. Still, according to the US ratings slightly tougher than Fiji and Australia's - Pam's...
Pacific nations to highlight Cyclone Pam in climate talks
2015-03-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pacific Islands devastated by Cyclone Pam at the weekend will be using the disaster to drive home the need for a globally funded insurance pool to aid in the recovery from such events when they attend climate-change talks in Paris later this year. Ian Fry, the chief climate-change negotiator for the tiny island nation of Tuvalu, said the establishment of a permanent fund to help countries cope with the impact of climate-related disasters and other "slow-onset events" such as rising sea levels...
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Asking if Cyclone Pam Was Caused by Climate Change Is Wrong Question
2015-03-17 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: When Cyclone Pam ripped through the South Pacific on Saturday morning, it not only left behind a trail of destruction on the 83-island nation of Vanuatu. In the storm's wake, political leaders around the world have used the event as an opportunity to highlight the need to address climate change and help poor, low-lying nations to adapt to rising seas and more severe weather extremes. Vanuatu's president Baldwin Lonsdale wasted little time in identifying the culprit behind his country's acute humanitarian...
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Ban highlights climate risks as Vanuatu counts dead Cyclone Pam
2015-03-16 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Attending a UN disaster avoidance conference in Japan, Ban said islands and coastal nations needed "special attention." Before Pam struck Vanuatu late Friday, Pacific islands had repeatedly warned that climate change means higher weather risks. "Climate change is intensifying the risks for hundreds of millions of people, particularly in small island developing states and coastal areas," Ban told the conference. What we are discussing here is very real for millions," he said. France, which...
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