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Norway and the US Strengthen Their Collaboration on Climate Change
2016-06-16 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nordic Page: Norway and the US share the goal of halting global deforestation. By strengthening collaboration between our two countries on forests and climate change, we can contribute to a more rapid and forceful implementation of the Paris agreement and the sustainable development goals, says Vidar Helgesen, Minister of the Climate and Environment in Norway. Minister Helgesen signed a joint statement on deeper collaboration on forests and climate change, with State Secretary of the US, John Kerry. In...
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Kerry tours Arctic Circle to see climate change impact
2016-06-16 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting Norway's extreme north to view areas impacted by climate change with melting ice and the opening of new sea lanes. Kerry flew Thursday from the capital of Oslo to the small town of Svalbard in the Arctic Circle and was scheduled to visit Ny-Alesund, the northernmost civilian settlement in the world that is home to 15 Arctic research stations, as well as the Blomstrand Glacier, which has significantly receded in recent years. Kerry has made the...
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2 researchers find that climate change can cause species relocation
2016-06-16 06:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily California: Researchers discover wildfires correlate with human activity, climate change Study by UC Berkeley professors links economic inequality, climate change Berkeley Lab scientists create model to map permafrost carbon, climate feedback Two researchers, including campus associate professor of public policy Solomon Hsiang, published a study June 9 that found that climate change characterized by a temperature increase of two degrees Celsius can cause species in the Tropics to migrate a significant distance...
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Sweden faces climate test as voters oppose brown coal sale
2016-06-15 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The Swedish government is expected to decide this week whether to allow the sale of some of Europe`s most polluting assets. At issue are state-owned Vattenfall`s brown coal mines and plants in Germany, which it wants to offload to Czech firm EPH. That would go against UN climate deal struck in Paris, say critics, calling for the dirty fuel to be left in the ground. Olivia Linander of 350.org urged the ruling parties to "show they take the Paris Agreement seriously" by blocking the transaction....
Climate impacts from farming are getting worse
2016-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As signs emerge that the global energy sector is beginning to rein in what once had been unbridled levels of climate-changing pollution, new United Nations figures show pollution from farming is continuing to get worse. Greenhouse gases released from the growing of crops and livestock directly increased by a little more than 1 percent in 2014, compared with a year prior, the newly updated data shows. Dairy cows are a major source of methane pollution, which heats the atmosphere faster than...
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