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Climate concerns on rise among energy corporation investors
2016-05-29 06:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Palm Beach Post: The climate is warming and energy companies are starting to feel the heat. Three of America`s biggest energy companies held shareholder meetings this month. And at each, there were votes on resolutions related to climate change. The resolutions didn`t win. But they got a third of the vote or more. And thats significant. Its now harder for the corporations to dismiss climate change as the obsession of an irritating fringe. The concern is going mainstream -- as it should. As The Posts Susan...
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Watching Worlds Sink -- Witnessing Climate Change In Pacific
2016-05-29 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: These pictures are part of a piece called Warm Waters -- a long-term, ongoing photography project documenting how man made global warming is an immediate problem for some of the world's smallest nations and countries. Sokhin first started to think about the effects of climate change while on assignment in Papua New Guinea, where he visited a region known as Manus Island. He had worked on several assignments about deforestation and climate change, but it was a small island off Manus -- half eroded...
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Climate change threatens U.N. World Heritage sites
2016-05-29 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bend Bulletin: The catastrophes seem like the stuff filmmaker Roland Emmerichs dreams are made of: In the United States, Yellowstone National Park morphs from thick woods to sparser brushland in the aftermath of frequent and furious forest fires. In Italy, Venice sinks beneath a swelling Adriatic Sea. In England, Stonehenge tumbles to the ground when the local mole and badger populations explode, and their burrows weaken the earth beneath the 5,000-year-old rock monuments. None of these disasters are certain...
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Grant goes toward UGA geneticist's plant, climate change study
2016-05-29 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Online Athens: Jill Anderson, an assistant professor of genetics in the University of Georgias Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Program to study the effects of climate change on plants. CAREER awards are among the foundations most prestigious, and they support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar and the integration of education and research. Andersons project tests whether plants will...
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Canada: Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May talks climate change in Muskoka
2016-05-29 01:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says Canada can do much better when it comes to reducing carbon emissions. She was in Bracebridge on Saturday for the Muskoka Summit on the Environment. The theme of the summit was Solutions for a Warming World. She and several other environmental experts spoke at the summit. May says climate change is a problem everyone should take personally. Some already are. This might sound radical but did you know that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia announced...
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