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Honor Our Right to Exist, Say Pacific Island Leaders at COP21
2015-12-11 00:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: On World Human Rights Day (December 10) at the UN climate conference in Paris, small island nations from the Pacific made a passionate call to the world leaders: stop climate change and honour our right to exist on the earth. We have been singing the same song for so many years: reduce carbon emission and global warming, because it threatens our existence, said Enele Sosele Sopoaga, the prime minister of Tuvalu. With a population of only 10,000 and land area of 26 square kilometers, Tuvalu is...
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NikeLab and Stone Island Partner up to Kickstart "The Year of the Windrunner"
2015-12-09 17:49:00| Footwear - Topix.net
Created by Nike's first apparel designer in 1978 and revolutionary for its raglan sleeves and 26-degree chevron yoke, the Windrunner jacket became the first piece of Nike apparel worn by athletes at track and field trials before and after competition. This silhouette has been a fixture on medal stands and city streets ever since it was first introduced, worn by everyone from distance runners to breakdancing b-boys.
Panama jungle island is nerve center for climate researchers
2015-12-07 01:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: In a manmade lake in the Panama Canal sits an island whose compact jungle is teeming with researchers studying biodiversity and climate change -- a tropical outcrop hailed as vital for understanding the world's forests. Barro Colorado Island is 15.6 square kilometers (six square miles), roughly four times the size of New York's Central Park. Located in Gatun Lake, created in the early 20th century, it is run by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and currently boasts 350 scientific...
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Bangladesh island losing battle to stem climate tide
2015-12-06 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Hamida Begum has fled her home on Bangladesh's Kutubdia island more times than she can remember while her neighbours have already given up the battle to prevent theirs being swallowed by the sea. "I am scared our house will be washed away as well some day and during the monsoon season we can't live here at all,' says the mother-of-four, standing outside the only one of a row of mud-brick shacks still intact. "But this is our land and besides, we don't have money to go elsewhere.' Although...
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Public workshops announced for Staten Island bus study
2015-12-03 22:37:01| Railroads - Topix.net
City and local officials are currently studying ways to drastically improve Staten Island bus service, and they're asking for the public's help. The Staten Island Comprehensive Bus Study launched this summer as collaboration between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and local officials to address what is viewed as an outdated network of 31 local and 20 express buses.
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