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Climate Change Killing Off 35% of Great Barrier Reef Coral
2016-05-30 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telesur: Mass coral bleaching has destroyed at least 35 percent of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef, Australian scientists said on Monday, a major blow to the World Heritage Site that attracts about US$3.59 billion in tourism each year. Australian scientists said the coral mortality figure will likely rise as some of the remaining 65 percent of coral in the northern and central reefs fails to recover from bleaching. The report casts a shadow over the long-term prospects of the Great Barrier...
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Pacific Northwest LNG project 'deeply concerns' climate change experts
2016-05-30 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: A group of international climate change experts has come out swinging against a massive LNG project in Northern B.C., saying it would become one of Canada's largest greenhouse gas emitters, if allowed to move forward. In a letter to Canada's Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, the 90 scientists and experts call for a halt to the proposed Pacifc NorthWest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project near Prince Rupert. They say when all of the associated emissions are added up, the project would...
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Climate Change Is Rewiring Government-Citizen Relationships
2016-05-30 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: The United States doesnt have a good history with urban projects, says architect Matthijs Bouw. As proof, he points to the multitude of grim public-housing projects across the country. Theorists believed courtyards enclosed by tall towers would enhance quality of life, but nobody asked the people whod be living there. Today, students learn about places like Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis and Cabrini-Green in Chicago as models for what not to do; city governments have already taken the wrecking ball...
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Alberta government tables for climate leadership
2016-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Meridian Booster: Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Act, known as Bill 20, passed its first reading in Edmonton last week. Included in the bill was an economy-wide carbon tax on fossil fuels starting next year, a cut to the small business tax by one per cent and the creation of a new agency to fund and promote energy efficiency and green industry. The plan will aim to create jobs by investing in a low-carbon, energy-efficient economy. "Our plan to reduce carbon pollution will diversify the economy, create...
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'Climate change probably not responsible for Harappan civilisation collapse'
2016-05-30 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Zee: Climate change was probably not the sole cause for the collapse of the Harappan civilisation in the Indus-Ghaggar-Hakra river valleys, say Indian scientists in a breakthrough study, highlighting that the the Harappans "did not give up" despite the decline in the monsoon. The recent research by a team of researchers from IIT Kharagpur, Institute of Archaeology, Deccan College Pune, Physical Research Laboratory and Archaeological survey of India (ASI) also shows that the civilization itself was...
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