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Is Climate Change Making Conflict Worse?
2016-06-27 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: Recent evidence points to environmental stress having an adverse impact on weak or unstable countries, pointing to a grim future with droughts, floods and other extreme events expected to increase due to climate change. Right now, the world is looking at Venezuela, which is going through one of the worst economic crises in recent history. Its economy is collapsing before our eyes, and environmental factors aren`t helping. Drought is crippling the country`s hydro-power potential, devastating crops...
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From fire breaks to fire hazards: Human activity & climate change transforming world's peatlands
2016-06-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Since the glaciers receded about 12,000 years ago, the humble bog has acted as a storage vault for atmospheric carbon, packed with dead moss and topped by a green layer of living moss that can come back after a burn. The world's bogs hold more carbon than the word's rainforests, and Canada is home to about 185 billion tonnes of increasingly vulnerable peat deposits, ranging from 40 cm to several metres deep. Dried peatlands fuelled a 2011 fire in Slave Lake Alberta, for example, and the recent...
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Chasing Survival: Many Species Face Climate Change's Ultimate Test
2016-06-27 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Roughly half of the world's species are currently on the move. As global warming drives ocean and air temperatures higher, they are chasing the habitats they are accustomed toheading further north or to higher elevations or following the trail of their food sources. Those that can't keep up with the pace of change face extinction, and if warming continues at its current pace, one in six species is projected to go extinct. That number falls to one in 20 if the rise is constrained to 2 degrees Celsius,...
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Maldives Pressure First-World Countries to Ratify Climate Change Agreement
2016-06-27 07:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The Maldives, known worldwide for pristine waters and exotic white sand beaches, are also one of the most at-risk nations to the effects of climate change such as stronger storms and sea level rise. (Photo : Giulio Di Sturco/Getty Images) The Maldives, one of the countries most prone and vulnerable to the effects of climate change such as sea level rise and super storms, urged industrialized countries to affirm their commitment to the Paris climate change agreement by ratifying it. It has been...
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The inter-generational theft of Brexit and climate change
2016-06-27 05:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In last weeks Brexit vote results, there was a tremendous divide between age groups. 73% of voters under the age of 25 voted to remain in the EU, while about 58% over the age of 45 voted to leave. This generational gap is among the many parallels between Brexit and climate change. A 2014 poll found that 74% of Americans under the age of 30 support government policies to cut carbon pollution, as compared to just 58% of respondents over the age of 40, and 52% over the age of 65. Inter-generational...
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