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Climate calamity top threat to global economy in 2016
2016-01-14 11:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Disasters caused by climate change beat nuclear proliferation and forced migrations to head economists concerns for the year ahead. A survey of 750 experts by the World Economic Forum before its annual meeting in Switzerland next week pushed the environment to first place in 11 years. Climate change is exacerbating more risks than ever before in terms of water crises, food shortages, constrained economic growth, weaker societal cohesion and increased security risks, said Cecilia Reyes, chief...
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Climate change disaster is biggest threat to global economy 2016, say experts
2016-01-14 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A catastrophe caused by climate change is seen as the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016, according to a survey of 750 experts conducted by the World Economic Forum. The annual assessment of risks conducted by the WEF before its annual meeting in Davos on 20-23 January showed that global warming had catapulted its way to the top of the list of concerns. A failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation was seen as likely to have a bigger impact than the spread of weapons...
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Rare UK butterfly under threat as elms disappear
2016-01-11 11:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A species of rare UK butterfly is under threat after a widespread tree disease caused its only habitat to virtually disappear. According to research, the population of White-letter Hairstreak butterflies has dropped by 96% in the last 40 years. Experts say over the same period, the UK population of elm trees, the butterflies exclusive habitat, has dropped by more than 30m. The Wildlife Trust has estimated there are approximately 1,000 mature English elms left in the UK following an outbreak...
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Warming Fuels Rise in Methane Threat
2016-01-07 16:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: There is fresh concern among scientists over the rises they are detecting in one of the chief greenhouse gases, methane. A team of researchers from universities in Sweden and the US says methane is increasing in the atmosphere fast enough for emissions of the gas possibly to rise by between 20% and 50% before the end of the century. Over a century, methane is 25 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the main gas contributing to global warming. But over a 20-year period,...
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Security beefed up at Delhi airport after 'non-specific' threat call
2016-01-07 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in Delhi, India, has stepped up its security following a 'non-specific call' to its control room about an impending bomb blast at the airport.
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