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Researchers Investigate Economic Impact of Climate Change on Farms
2016-06-20 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - An interdisciplinary team from the University of Illinois recently investigated the effects of climate change on farmland values in the Southwestern United States.
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Obama touts wonders of national parks while talking climate change
2016-06-19 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: With Yosemite Falls in the background, President Obama told an audience during the weekend that climate change is already impacting Americas national parks. Make no mistake, climate change is no longer just a threat its already a reality, he said from a lectern near Sentinel Bridge in Yosemite National Park. The first familys trip to the nations fourth most-visited park with about 4 million visitors a year came as the National Park Service is approaching its 100th anniversary in...
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John Kerry just visited the most stunning example of our changing climate
2016-06-19 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: On Friday, John Kerry -- who has led a push on climate change like perhaps no other U.S. secretary of state, culminating in the Paris climate accord late last year -- visited perhaps the starkest indicator of the problem in our hemisphere: the enormous Jakobshavn (or Sermeq Kujalleq) glacier of Greenland. It was part of a far-northern tour that also took Kerry -- who this year is leading the United States chairmanship of the Arctic Council -- to the remote Arctic island of Svalbard, where he...
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President Obama visits Yosemite, discusses threat of climate change
2016-06-19 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: President Barack Obama spoke in front of one of Yosemite National Park's picturesque waterfalls on a sun-splashed Saturday touting the importance of America's parks, but cautioning the threat of climate change is real and affecting the planet now. The President and first family are visiting Yosemite to mark the 100th anniversary of the National Park system. The Obama's visited Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico on Friday. In a speech with a small group of onlookers in front of the falls,...
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Climate change is a huge threat to our national parks
2016-06-19 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: The director of the National Park Service, John Jarvis, recently called climate disruption the single greatest threat to the integrity of the parks that has ever been experienced. And this is causing a wholesale rethink of planning for the future of the parks. We're seeing all kinds of climate change impacts throughout the system, Jarvis says. Some of the most obvious, for example, are sea level rise impacts on coastal parks where we're seeing erosion of cultural resources, of beaches and these...
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