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The world's first climate refugees
2016-07-01 07:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
US blastingnews: The 2011 Academy Awards documentary film categories were filled with nominees who have focused on controversial environmental themes. 'Sun Come Up,' by Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger, was an early favorite in the documentary short category examining the fate of the Pacific Islands of Carteret whose people have become the globes first climate refugees. The Carteret Islands are located off the coast of Papua New Guinea and were home to approx. 2,500 people. Havent heard of them? Dont worry,...
Climate Change Threatening Penguins In Antarctica: Study
2016-07-01 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: Continued warming of Antarctica due to climate change may lead to decline of 60 per cent of Adelie penguin colonies by the end of this century, a new study has warned. Climate change in Antarctica, cooling in some places and warming in others, is causing a dramatic shift in the population of Adelie penguins, researchers said. Historic satellite observations and future climate model projections were used to estimate past and future changes in habitat suitability during the penguins' chick-rearing...
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What Brexit Means for Addressing Climate Change
2016-06-30 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TIME: There may be more questions than answers The future of energy and environmental policy in the United Kingdom and the European Union has been thrown into question following the U.K.`s vote to leave the E.U. last week, despite promises from the current Conservative Party leadership that the country would deliver on commitments. "The UK's role in dealing with a warming planet may have been made harder by the decision last Thursday," said Amber Rudd, the U.K. Energy and Climate Change secretary,...
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Al Gores daughter arrested at climate protest
2016-06-30 20:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Karenna Gore, eldest daughter of Al Gore, was among 23 activists arrested in Boston on Wednesday while protesting construction of a natural gas pipeline. The nonviolent demonstration, organized by the group Resist the Pipeline, also included more than a dozen faith leaders and longtime activist Tim deChristopher. "We were arrested because the laws and policies regarding climate change are so out of step with what is required to meet this challenge," Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth...
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Climate change is making our summers more extreme
2016-06-30 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Scientists have been able to more directly link extreme weather, like the floods that hit Central Europe last month, to climate change. A changed climate could also mean hotter summers - and with that, more deaths. Bye-bye idyllic summers? Climate change is set to make summers full of extreme weather Europe's summer got off to a torrential start this year as severe flooding struck much of the continent. At least 18 people were killed in May 2016 in the heavy downpours and ensuing floods that...
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