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Enter the suits: business must deliver on the Paris climate deal
2016-06-13 11:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: We are in a new era of climate action. After the success of the Paris negotiations, the world of 2016 is unequivocally a different place than that of a year ago. While in 2015 we were still asking whether we had the sense and courage to commit to the decarbonisation needed to fend off dangerous climate change, now it is only the speed of the transition that is in question. The groundswell of support from businesses at COP21 last year not only helped in securing that Paris Agreement but also...
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Great Barrier Reef: Australia Pledges $740M To Protect Climate Change-Ravaged Structure
2016-06-13 09:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: The past few months have brought in a raft of news about the health of the iconic Great Barrier Reef -- each one worse than the last. According to recent surveys, over 90 percent of the 1,400 mile structure has been affected by some level of coral bleaching -- an event that occurs when corals, stressed by rising water temperature and acidity, expel the symbiotic algae living within their tissues. This bleaching event, which is the worst in the reefs history, has killed 35 percent of its corals in...
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The Choctaw vs. climate change: 'The earth is speaking'
2016-06-13 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: It's nearly June. Every day, the Earth brings Darryl "Grey Eagle" Brown closer to the Sun, to heaven, to the Creator. That means it's nearly time for the Eagle Sun Dance ceremony, a 12-day communal gathering of fasting, thanksgiving and prayer that takes place around the summer solstice, when the Creator is especially near. Fifty-six-year-old Brown is a member of the Choctaw tribe of Oklahoma and a spiritual leader for a band of tribal members seeking to practise their indigenous religion. He...
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Averting disasters : 'Planning can mitigate climate change impact'
2016-06-13 02:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
APP: Appropriate planning and putting effective strategy in place could help mitigate the adverse impact of global meteorological changes that has reached extreme levels due to global warming and changing climate patterns. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Spokesperson Ahmed Kamal said that natural disasters were unavoidable but the damage from such tragedies could be lowered reasonably by keeping an affective and comprehensive strategy in place to address certain key issues. Commenting...
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Scientists use climate, population changes to predict diseases
2016-06-13 01:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: British scientists say they have developed a model that can predict outbreaks of zoonotic diseases those such as Ebola and Zika that jump from animals to humans based on changes in climate. Describing their model as "a major improvement in our understanding of the spread of diseases from animals to people", the researchers said it could help governments prepare for and respond to disease outbreaks, and to factor in their risk when making policies that might affect the environment. "Our...
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