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Supreme Court and the Obama Administration's Climate Plans
2016-03-18 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment360: Two unexpected and shocking events have left heads swimming about the fate of President Obamas signature initiative on climate change, the Clean Power Plan, which aims to replace many coal-fired power plants the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States with cleaner sources of energy. Last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay on the Clean Power Plan until the litigation against it is finally resolved, suspending implementation of the plan for the foreseeable...
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China Contributes 10% of Human Influence on Climate Change
2016-03-18 14:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Carbon Brief: China accounts for a tenth of all the greenhouse gases and aerosols that have collected in the atmosphere over the industrial era, according to new research. Boasting one of the worlds largest economies, China has overtaken the EU and the U.S. as the worlds largest emitter, with CO2 emissions from fossil fuels tripling over the past 30 years. But despite soaring CO2 emissions, Chinas relative contribution to climate change has remained steady--around the 10 percent mark--over the whole industrial...
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China's forest recovery shows hope mitigating global climate change
2016-03-18 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: China's sweeping program to restore forests across the country is working. The vast destruction of China's forests, leveled after decades of logging, floods and conversion to farmland, has become a story of recovery, according to the first independent verification published in today's Science Advances by Michigan State University (MSU) researchers. "It is encouraging that China's forest has been recovering in the midst of its daunting environmental challenges such as severe air pollution and...
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Climate, Movement, and the Spread of Disease
2016-03-18 06:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Setting the Scene On the southwest coast of Madagascar, the sun burns bright and fierce over white-hot sands and turquoise seas. The plants are small and spiny and hardened against the relentless droughtthey store water over long periods in bulging baobab trunks, and open their stomata to drink in CO2 only sparingly in the relative cool of the night. The people of the southwest too, are dark and weathered and wiryin the jumbled diversity of ethnicities that characterize the Eighth Continent,...
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How much are trees feeling heat of climate change?
2016-03-17 19:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Rising temperatures might not stress trees as much as previously thought. And that means they may continue to be efficient at scrubbing carbon from the atmosphere, even as the planet warms. As a result, some equations in our climate models will likely have to be tweaked. Forests are known for being massive carbon warehouses, drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Most of that carbon remains locked in trees' roots, trunks, branches, and leaves but a bit of it is...
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