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Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua
2016-04-06 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: A three-year drought, added to massive deforestation in the past few decades, has dried up most of Nicaragua's water sources and has led to an increasingly severe water supply crisis. Since January, photos and videos showing dried-up streams, rivers and lakes have been all over the social networks, local news media, blogs and online bulletins of environmental organisations. Jaime Incer, a former minister of the environment and natural resources and the president of the Nicaraguan Foundation...
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Soil crisis brought about by climate change may hit global food production, claims alarming new research
2016-04-06 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The world is facing a soil crisis that could badly hit food production, according to alarming new research. A 17-year study into the effect of global warming on microbes the tiny bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms that determine soil health reveals them to be far less adaptable to changing conditions than expected. It raises concerns the microbes will not be able to carry out essential functions, such as breaking down leaves and other organic matter in a process which converts them...
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John Kerry Urges Business to Act on Climate Change
2016-04-06 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TIME: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday called on private businesses to move rapidly away from fossil fuels--both to prevent devastating climate change and to drive global economic growth. "If we're going to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, we have to accelerate this transition," Kerry said in a speech. "When we talk about the future of energy, we are actually talking about the future of everything." The address, delivered at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New...
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Leading the Climate Change Resistance
2016-04-05 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Climate change is the harsh reality of today, and its impacts are undeniable for nations such as ours. Global warming is leading to unprecedented rise in sea level, and for a low lying nation like Bangladesh, that means widespread inundation. Changing weather patterns are also wreaking havoc on agricultural production which is dependent on regular patterns of rainfall, heat and cold. Frequency and intensity of droughts, floods and cyclones are on the rise. And millions of hapless victims are finding...
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Judge orders U.S. to address climate threat to wolverines
2016-04-05 05:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A wolverine walks across the snow in this U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service A federal judge on Monday rejected a decision by U.S. wildlife managers to deny wolverines Endangered Species Act protection, ruling the government erred in discounting the threat posed by climate change to the weasel-like predator of the Northern Rockies. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2013 proposed an endangered species listing for the estimated 300 wolverines believed to still inhabit the Lower 48 states, most...
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