je.st
news
Tag: climate
Is Worry Worthwhile in Confronting Climate Change?
2016-03-03 22:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Is worry worthwhile in confronting a challenge as complex and sprawling in time and geography as greenhouse-driven climate change? Ive addressed this question before in various ways, but was prompted to dig into my ideas and feelings about the building greenhouse effect with new rigor when two very different magazines, Issues in Science and Technology (the magazine of the National Academies) and Creative Nonfiction, invited me to write an essay on my 30 years of climate inquiry. I went through...
Tags: change
worry
climate
worthwhile
Study Finds Climate Change May Drive Wealth Inequality
2016-03-03 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courthouse News Service: Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change are driving fish populations to cooler water, and the changes will have an "inevitable and unpredictable" impact on the world's economy, according to a study by university researchers. Researchers say important fish species are relocating closer to the Earth's poles because of continued global warming and their migration could devastate certain fishing-based economies. The changes are shifting natural resources from nations near the equator and...
Tags: change
study
drive
finds
Climate Change Could Cause Half a Million Deaths in 2050, Due to Reduced Food Availability
2016-03-03 21:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: By 2050, global climate change will have made its mark on nutritional health. New research published March 2 in The Lancet finds that by making food less available, climate change could account for more than 500,000 deaths that year. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says climate change already has reduced crop yields. For example, in Brazil corn yields are down 8 percent, and in Russia wheat yield has dropped 14 percent. When crop yield goes down, food prices go up, as do a whole...
Canada: Premiers want flexibility from feds on how to tackle climate change
2016-03-03 20:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Canadian premiers headed into the First Ministers Meeting hoping the federal government would remain open and flexible on how exactly to fight climate change, and there are signs an agreement has been reached. Canada is a very big country, and I think the approach to dealing with this issue needs to be as diverse as the country is and hopefully we will have a federal government that will listen to that, Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski told reporters at the Vancouver Convention Centre Thursday morning....
Tags: change
canada
flexibility
climate
Bankruptcy Filing Shows Arch Coal Funded Climate Denial Group
2016-03-03 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a group best known for filing lawsuits seeking climate scientists` personal emails, has secretly received funding from Arch Coal, one of the largest coal producers in the U.S. The funding is revealed in documents recently filed as part of the Arch Coal bankruptcy proceedings which list the coal company`s creditors. The Arch funding is revealed just months after Alpha Natural Resources, another coal company facing bankruptcy, was identified...
Tags: group
shows
filing
climate
Sites : [399] [400] [401] [402] [403] [404] [405] [406] [407] [408] [409] [410] [411] [412] [413] [414] [415] [416] [417] [418] next »