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Food shortages and sea level rise US voters' top climate change concerns
2016-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Diminishing food and water security and ruinous sea level rise are the leading climate change concerns of a section of the American electorate that is aghast at the lack of discussion of global warming during the presidential debate. A Guardian US survey of its readers found that pressure on food and water supplies is considered the most important consequence of climate change. Sea level rise, which is set to inundate coastal areas currently occupied by millions of Americans, is second on the...
Populations on the rise in Alaska villages threatened by erosion, changing climate
2016-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch News: Aerial view of the village of Kivalina, which is threatened by coastal erosion of the long barrier island between the Chukchi Sea in the distance and a lagoon at the mouth of the Kivalina River in the foreground on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Some Alaska villages perched on thawing and eroding permafrost may have to move soon to more solid ground inland, a daunting prospect. So will residents, on their own, abandon their threatened communities and avoid the need to pay for such costly community...
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TTIP leak rebuts EU pledge to tackle climate change, say green activists
2016-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: The European Union's proposal for a chapter on energy and raw materials in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement was leaked on Monday, just as the fourteenth round of talks between the EU and US got underway in Brussels. However, the EU's plans have been criticised by the European wing of Friends of the Earth. Its economic justice programme coordinator Paul de Clerck said: "The EU's leaked proposal on TTIP and energy is in complete contradiction with Europe's commitments...
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Gulf stream slowdown to spare Europe from worst of climate change
2016-07-11 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys.Org: Europe will be spared the worst economic impacts of climate change by a slowing down of the Gulf Stream, new research predicts. Scientists have long suggested that global warming could lead to a slowdown - or even shutdown - of the vast system of ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream, that keeps Europe warm. Known as the Thermohaline Circulation, this system operates like a conveyor belt, transporting warm water from the tropics to Europe, where evaporation decreases salinity and density so...
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Diagnosis of fisheries and aquaculture vulnerability to climate change presented
2016-07-11 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World News: The Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) has presented the Current Diagnosis of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector Vulnerability to Climate Change in order to implement measures to counter the harm caused by climate, non-climate and oceanographic changes to fishing and aquaculture activities in the country. The document presented by Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Juan Carlos Requejo Aleman is the result of teamwork led by Rosa Zavala, PRODUCE Director General of Fisheries Sustainability...
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