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Climate change 'most existential crisis civilisation has known', says DiCaprio
2016-02-29 08:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar on Sunday, after being nominated four times previously. The actor was expected to win after dominating the best actor race all season, winning a number of precursor awards including a Bafta. Still, he said the industry-wide support hes received over the past few months feels incredibly surreal. This year in particular I was overwhelmed by the support from fans and people in the industry, he said backstage at the ceremony, shortly after winning his best...
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America's climate refugee crisis has already begun
2016-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In the small town of Newtok, Alaska, a Yupik village of about 350 people, children once played on endless fields of frozen permafrost. Now, they splash in salt water pools and teeter on boardwalks as the permafrost below thaws and the Ninglick River chips away at the community. Soon even the boards will be swallowed by the rising tides. In 2017, it is projected that the highest point in Newtok - the school building - will be underwater. For these Alaskans, climate change is not just a global temperature...
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Though climate change is a crisis, the population threat is even worse
2015-12-04 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The perennial cry: we need to talk about climate change. And this week, with world leaders in Paris, we have been. But only up to a point. For the likely impact of the rising global population is almost entirely absent, not only from the debate about climate change, but also from that about loss of biological diversity, food and water security, disease, pollution and energy. Lets just remind ourselves of the population statistics of the past half century. In just over half my lifetime, the worlds...
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Silent Crisis: How Climate Change Drives People From Homes by Destroying Their Livelihoods
2015-11-14 05:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: According to a recent study, rising temperatures are a significant driver of permanent migration among poor farmers in Indonesia. The study found that temperature increases were far more likely to induce migration than rapid-onset hazards such as floods, due to their long-term and cumulative effects on household income. Based on the results, the researchers estimated that an additional 2°C rise in temperatures could force up to five percent of Indonesias population (12.4 million people) to migrate...
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Bernie Sanders: Climate Change Is A Major Planetary Crisis And The U.S. Must Act Now
2015-11-05 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told reporters Wednesday that President Obama should reject the Keystone XL pipeline before the United Nations` conference on climate change starts at the end of the month. Its imperative that we not just talk the talk but walk the walk, that the United States lead the world in combating climate change, Sanders said. The proposed pipeline would add 1,179 miles to the existing Keystone pipeline system. It would carry crude oil from Canada`s...