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Experts urge Caribbean nations to prepare for climate change or risk fresh water scarcity
2013-09-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean -- the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region. Rising sea levels could contaminate supplies of fresh water and changing climate patterns could result in less rain to supply reservoirs in the coming decades, scientists and officials warned at a conference in St. Lucia this week. "Inaction is not an option,' said Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Caribbean land and water officer...
Caribbean Scientist Warns of Climate Change Disaster
2013-05-19 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent scientist. Conrad Douglas, a Jamaican scientist who has published over 350 reports on environmental management and related matters, has warned that "urgent action at all levels [is] required now", cautioning the region against complacency in dealing with climate change. Noting that earlier models forecast that an atmosphere...
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Climate Change Threatens Caribbean Coral Reefs
2013-02-14 22:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Scientists and researchers are working together in a new initiative to collect data that will help determine the effects of climate change on coral in the Caribbean Sea. "We want to know how climate change will impact our corals. So we will measure variables that would impact corals due to climate change," said Mark Bynoe, senior research economist at the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC). Bynoe told IPS that the idea behind the project is to be able to able to...
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