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201 Years Ago, This Volcano Caused a Climate Catastrophe
2016-04-09 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: 201 Years Ago, This Volcano Caused a Climate Catastrophe Indonesia's Tambora eruption brought on a deadly spate of cooling-presaging the costs that come with sudden changes to climate. On April 10, 1815, Indonesia's island of Sumbawa became ground zero for the worst volcanic eruption in modern times-and a chilling example of a widespread climate catastrophe. The Tambora event was the largest volcanic eruption in the last millennium. On the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Explosivity...
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Climate Change Is Moving the North Pole
2016-04-08 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Climate Change Is Moving the North Pole As ice melts and aquifers are drained, Earth's distribution of mass is changing-and with it the position of the planet's spin axis. The collapse of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002 is just one example of shrinking glaciers around the world, a process that is changing the planet's mass distribution. Finding the North Pole means traveling north, right? Yes, but with a slight caveat: Earth's northern pole is drifting rapidly eastward, and it looks...
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UN: Ratify Paris climate deal or face exclusion from decisions
2016-04-08 18:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Head of legal affairs outlines implications of early entry into force for Paris deal, and voting rights of countries slow to approve treaty Countries should move fast to sign and ratify the Paris climate agreement or could lose the power to determine how the new deal works, a UN legal official has warned. An eight-page advisory published on the UN climate bodys website says governments who have joined the deal will enjoy certain rights and privileges including the right to approve decisions....
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World Bank goes big on fighting climate change
2016-04-08 13:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: The World Bank has announced plans to fight climate change through a new Climate Change Action Plan that it hopes will see investment in environmental projects reach $29 billion a year by 2020. In a statement on Thursday, the Bank said that, in the next five years, it planned to help countries in the developing world add 30 gigawatts of renewable energy to global energy capacity; provide "early warning systems" to 100 million people; and develop "climate-smart agriculture investment plans for...
Climate Change Is Making Your Allergies Even Worse
2016-04-08 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Pollen-covered honeybees (Apis mellifera) hang out in a pumpkin in Germany. But the pollen that bees carry isn't the kind that makes you sneeze every spring. When one tree loves another tree very much, it releases pollen to fertilize the ovules of that tree, plus whatever other trees happen to be around (you know how it goes). But when the pollen begins to blow, you're probably not marveling at the miracle of tree reproduction-you're dreading the allergies that accompany it. The reason that...
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