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With dwindling food production, how India can tackle problem of climate change
2016-06-05 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
First Post: A lot has been spoken about climate change over the years. It is one of the major challenges planet earth faces currently amongst various other issues. Even the much talked about COP21 discussions held in Paris last year ended without any tangible and immediate steps to curb the alarming issue of climate change. With global greenhouse gas emissions reaching unprecedented levels despite multiple efforts, the UNs weather agency recently said, Temperatures in the first two months of the year 2016...
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Boston mayor heading to China for climate change summit
2016-06-05 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is heading to China this week to talk about the challenge that climate change poses to urban areas. The Democrat will join a delegation that includes officials from 20 U.S. municipalities taking part in a low-carbon cities summit in Beijing on Tuesday and Wednesday. Walsh says Boston has made significant progress, but is always looking for other ways to better prepare for and adapt to the consequences of climate change. The summit is billed as an opportunity for officials...
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Donald Trump is an environmental nightmare: Keystone, climate change and GOP's demented pander
2016-06-05 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: When President Obama officially killed the Keystone XL pipeline in November 2015, that should have been the end of it. But last week Donald Trump promised to raise the pipeline from the dead if he is elected president. Trump chose to make his remarks in the heart of Americas drill-baby-drill demographic in Bismarck, North Dakota. Im saying yes, we will absolutely approve it, Trump said. Trump also promised to get rid of Obamas measures to reduce emissions, cancel the Paris climate agreement,...
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Climate change and resiliency
2016-06-05 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquirer: By signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Philippines committed, together with other countries, to reduce the polluting greenhouse gases that are causing our climate system to go haywire. Energy, agriculture, transportation and waste accounts for a large portion of these sources of dangerous emissions, with dirty coal as the biggest, said to account for 35% of the global greenhouse gas discharges. To show our sincerity in complying with...
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Evicted by climate change
2016-06-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Government regulations forced the Yupik to give up their semi-nomadic existence. Now, as the land around them vanishes, theyre puzzling through the problem of moving. On a Sunday morning in late September, Tom John, a wiry fisherman with a deep, placid gaze, ushers me onto his boat, moored on a riverbank in Newtok village, in southwest Alaska. His wife, Bernice, a sturdy-shouldered woman with a voice as bright as a sparrows, and their nine-year-old grandson clamber in after me. Our footsteps...
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