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Climate change will reduce San Pedro recharge, study says
2016-02-20 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Arizona Daily Star: The San Pedro study comes as the Legislature is considering two bills that would either lift, or make it easier for municipalities in Cochise County to lift, requirements that new developments prove they have an adequate water supply for 100 years to start building. As the law now stands, any county can require that all new developments prove an adequate supply. Cochise and Yuma counties are the only ones to have adopted such requirements. Pima County falls under a different state requirement...
Did This Polar Bear Die Because Climate Change?
2016-02-20 00:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery: Over the past couple of days, a photograph of a dead polar bear has made the viral rounds online, its fame accentuated by a number of different articles which claim the bear in question was "killed by climate change." But is that claim true? The photograph was taken by Sebastian Copeland, and is featured in his book Arctica: The Vanishing North; but the first thing to note is, over-enthusiastic headlines to the contrary, he didn't in fact claim that climate change killed the bear. Rather, he noted...
Climate change: Kiribati turns artificial islands to save nation from Atlantis fate
2016-02-19 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Kiribati is hoping to build artificial islands in a bid of saving the low-lying nation from rising sea levels that look set to turn it into a modern-day Atlantis. President Anote Tong said they are seeking help from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) engineers to work out how they could feasibly create artificial islands to protect the country from future climate change. Kiribati has been on the forefront of climate-change discussions for a number of years. Comprised of 33 atolls and reef islands,...
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UN links climate change to Zika, Ebola
2016-02-19 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The United Nations is urging action on climate change as a way to prevent the spread of diseases like Ebola and the Zika virus. In a speech this week, the executive director of the UNs Environment Programme (UNEP) said officials should take a more aggressive stance toward climate change, highlighting studies that show nearly a quarter of premature deaths around the world can be attributed to environmental problems. The spread of Zika, just as with Ebola, has sent a strong signal to the international...
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Ottawa wants provinces to form 'working groups' on climate change
2016-02-19 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The federal government is hoping to emerge from next month's first minister's conference in Vancouver with an agreement from the provinces and territories to spend the next six months consulting on key areas of climate change the, CBC has learned. But after 10 years of dealing with climate change on their own, some provinces are bristling at the federal government's attempt to insert itself at the centre of the environmental conversation happening March 3 in Vancouver. Sources say the federal...
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