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'Huge wake up call': Third of central, northern Great Barrier Reef corals dead
2016-05-29 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: More than one-third of the coral reefs of the central and northern regions of the Great Barrier Reef have died in the huge bleaching event earlier this year, Queensland researchers said. Corals to the north of Cairns covering about two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef were found to have an average mortality rate of 35 per cent, rising to more than half in areas around Cooktown. Researchers inspected 84 reefs and found coral mortality rates of 50 per cent or more in the north of the Great...
World Health Organization rejects call to postpone Rio Olympics over Zika
2016-05-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: The World Health Organization says there is "no public health justification" for postponing or canceling the Rio Summer Olympics because of the Zika outbreak in Brazil. The assessment, in a statement early Saturday, came a day after 150 health experts issued an open letter to the U.N. health agency calling for the games to be delayed or relocated "in the name of public health." Friday's letter cited recent scientific evidence that the Zika virus causes severe birth defects , most notably babies...
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Call for integrated approach to mitigate effects
2016-05-29 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
India Tribune: Director-General, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Ashwani Kumar has cautioned against global warming and called for an integrated approach to mitigate its effects, especially in the Himachal region. Advance preparations and multi-disciplinary approach coupled with intensive research is needed to combat the impact of climate change which would adversely affect agriculture, horticulture, forestry, biodiversity, flora and fauna and disturb the cropping patterns, said Kumar...
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United Kingdom: Women lead the call to arms as anti-fracking fight intensifies
2016-05-29 07:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We are ready for them, said Tina Louise Rothery. It has been a long battle but we have been ready for a confrontation for a long time. Rothery is one of a growing group of women at the forefront of opposition to fracking. Of the 250 anti-fracking community groups that have sprung up in Britain in the past few years, very many are led, or strongly backed, by women, who say they have been outraged at plans to risk peoples health by exploiting the countryside for shale gas. With drilling...
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Zika fears prompt 150 public health experts to call for olympics to be moved from Rio
2016-05-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: A group of 150 prominent scientists, doctors and medical ethicists have signed a letter calling for this summer's Olympic Games to be postponed or moved from Rio de Janeiro due to the ongoing Zika virus outbreak in Brazil. In a letter directed to World Health Organization Director Dr. Margaret Chan, the group said that new findings about the Zika virus should result in the games being moved or postponed to safeguard the thousands of athletes, staff and reporters scheduled to attend the games....
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