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Climate change will lead to deformed and virus-hit coral reefs
2016-02-19 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Coral will become deformed and increasingly fall victim to outbreaks of herpes-like viruses as humans continue to pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to two new studies. Combined, the two effects suggest coral reefs will have trouble recovering from bleaching events, like the the world is currently experiencing. When carbon dioxide is emitted from factories, cars and power plants, about 30% of it is absorbed by the ocean. As that happens, the acidity of the oceans increases,...
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Climate change has dropped off the political radar
2016-02-19 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: After Paris, what now? is a comment increasingly heard in conversations with civil society activists, diplomats and government officials. A senior figure involved at the Paris talks asked me recently if Id heard what plans NGOs had to keep the pressure up on leaders through 2016. Theyd heard little. Neither, I confessed, had I. Its a curious state of affairs given last December nearly 200 countries finally agreed to start walking towards a future without fossil fuels. But there are concerns...
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UN climate chief to step down
2016-02-19 17:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UN's top climate diplomat, Christiana Figueres, has said she will leave her post in July. Ms Figueres said she would not accept an extension of her appointment which finishes this summer. As executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, she played a key role in the talks that lead to the Paris Climate Agreement. Her contribution to the negotiation process was praised as "really extraordinary". Ms Figueres became executive secretary in the wake of the Copenhagen climate...
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UN climate change chief steps down after historic Paris deal
2016-02-19 16:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The UNs climate chief said on Friday she will step down in July, at the end of a six-year term, and praised governments for reaching a 195-nation deal in Paris in December to shift the world economy from fossil fuels to cleaner energies. Christiana Figueres, a 59-year-old Costa Rican, said she would not accept any extension of her term as head of the Bonn-based UN Climate Change Secretariat after what she called the historic Paris Agreement. We now move into a phase of urgent implementation,...
Scientists Pinpoint Areas Most Sensitive To Climate Change
2016-02-19 16:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The prairie regions of central Asia and North America, rainforests in Central America and South America, and eastern Australia all have one thing in common: They are among the most sensitive land ecosystems on Earth when it comes to climate change. That's according to new research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday that identified where around the world vegetation has responded most to climate fluctuations. "What this approach now enables us to to do is to start to identify the most...
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