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Statue of Liberty and Venice under climate change threat, UN report
2016-05-26 16:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change now poses the single biggest threat to the worlds most famous heritage sites including the Galápagos islands, the Statue of Liberty, Easter Island and Venice according to a UN sponsored report. The researchers looked at 31 natural and cultural world heritage sites in 29 countries that are vulnerable to increasing temperatures, melting glaciers, rising seas, more intense weather, worsening droughts and longer wildfire seasons. They believe this number is the tip of the iceberg....
Most Iconic Places Are Under Dire Threat From Climate Change
2016-05-26 16:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Dozens of the Earth's most cherished World Heritage sites are under dire threat from climate change -- and some may be damaged beyond saving, warns a report UNESCO released Thursday. The agency, alongside the Union of Concerned Scientists and the United Nations Environment Program, analyzed 31 natural and cultural World Heritage sites in 29 countries on six continent. The areas range from America's celebrated Yellowstone National Park and Venice's iconic Lagoon to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador...
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Is populism a threat to Europe's economies?
2016-05-26 01:23:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Will populism push Europe away from economic orthodoxy?
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Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Ninety-nine percent of the planet's freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world's populated coastal areas. Last month in Greenland, more than a tenth of the ice sheets surface was melting in the unseasonably warm spring sun, smashing 2010s record for a thaw so early in the year....
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Trump threat falls on deaf ears at UN climate talks
2016-05-18 18:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Diplomats seem unruffled from attack on global climate talks as Republican claims US got a bad deal in French capital Donald Trumps incendiary comments over the UNs new climate deal made little impact in Bonn on Wednesday, where officials from 196 countries are working on plans to slow global warming. Late on Tuesday, the likely Republican candidate for the White House said he would seek to renegotiate the Paris Agreement at a minimum. The statement caused a media frenzy in the US, deep...
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