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Climate change taskforce from NZ to visit Tuvalu, Kiribati
2016-01-11 02:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand: A team of MPs from New Zealand's opposition Labour Party will visit Tuvalu and Kiribati next month to see first-hand how the countries are dealing with climate change. Labour's special climate change task force will also look at what can be done to mitigate the problems the small island countries face due to rising seas. The party's Pacific Climate Change spokesperson Su'a William Sio says Labour also wants to review the whole issue of what makes a climate change refugee and what the legal definition...
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How the media can improve their climate coverage
2016-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: With the wave of media coverage surrounding the COP 21 climate summit in Paris, it might be hard to believe that climate change and other environmental issues suffer from a lack of coverage in the press. But, while major events like the COP can lead to brief peaks in reporting, media outlets continue often to struggle to engage both themselves and their readers in these issues. The former Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, shortly before stepping down, said he felt the media was failing to meet the...
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The link between climate change & immigration
2016-01-10 08:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deseret News: 2015 was a year where immigration and migration took center stage in America. Calls for border walls, a stop to the refugees from Syria, and a temporary ban on Muslim immigration have all been proposed in 2015 and they`ve dominated the headlines. As America continues its immigration discussion of today, it is also advisable to talk about future migration. Climate change is projected to displace hundreds of millions of individuals within the next hundred years. I am a strong supporter of open borders,...
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Antarctic scientists head to biological hotspot studying climate change in Southern Ocean
2016-01-10 05:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: For the first time since Sir Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions in the 1920s and 1930s, scientists will be conducting climate studies in the area known as the Kerguelen Plateau, in the Southern Ocean. The Kerguelen Plateau, hundreds of kilometres north of Mawson Station, is one of only three lines of longitude where the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flows across the Antarctic continental shelf, the deep ocean and subantarctic islands. That makes it one of the most highly productive regions...
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Climate Changed: An American business owner in Paris
2016-01-09 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Columbia Daily Tribune: Last month, 186 countries set aside race, borders and religion to come together to draft a global commitment to address climate change. And after several days and nights of intense negotiations, a historic agreement emerged that will forever change how our world combats climate change. This agreement is not just a victory for the world, but for U.S. businesses and consumers as well. America can capitalize on it by embracing clean-energy solutions that will drive investment, drive innovation and...
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