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Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns
2016-04-04 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change poses a serious danger to public health worse than polio in some respects and will strike especially hard at pregnant women, children, low-income people and communities of color, an authoritative US government report warned on Monday. The report, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, formally unveiled at the White House, warned of sweeping risks to public health from rising temperatures in the coming decades with increased...
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Trillions of dollars at risk from climate impacts study
2016-04-04 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Assets equivalent to the six largest companies listed on US Dow Jones stock exchange are at risk if carbon emissions rise unabated, researchers have calculated. Under business as usual, climate change will wipe an estimated US$2.5 trillion -- the market capitalisation of Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Exxon, Facebook and General Electric -- off the global economy by 2100, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change on Monday. If global warming is worse than expected, this could rise...
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EPA Proposes Use Of Climate-Friendly Alternatives To HFCs/Action Supports Climate Action Plan By Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2016-04-04 07:26:33| pollutiononline Home Page
Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to expand the list of acceptable substitutes and prohibit the use of certain chemicals in the U.S. that significantly contribute to climate change where safer, more climate-friendly alternatives exist.
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EPA Proposes Use Of Climate-Friendly Alternatives To HFCs/Action Supports Climate Action Plan By Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2016-04-04 07:26:33| chemicalonline Home Page
Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to expand the list of acceptable substitutes and prohibit the use of certain chemicals in the U.S. that significantly contribute to climate change where safer, more climate-friendly alternatives exist.
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Climate change is affecting nature's spring ballet
2016-04-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Columbus Dispatch: Biology erupts in spring. Nature comes to life, and life comes to nature. Flowers, bursting buds on trees and vocal songbirds appear almost as if they were part of a well-choreographed ballet. Indeed, it is a ballet, and the choreographer is natural selection. But lately the ballet company is in trouble. Some dancers are falling out of step. The stages on which this traveling company performs for a few days in the spring and fall are disappearing, threatening the very existence of some dancers....
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