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Rising Temps, Invisible Threats: Climate Change Spurs Disease Fears
2015-11-27 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: Winter was oddly mild in northern Texas in 2012, a year that saw few snowflakes and barely any ice. When the cold failed to show up, the spring mosquitoes arrived in droves, carrying disease. The insects multiplied during an unusually muggy May, when temperatures hit the 90s and then stayed there. On June 20, Dallas recorded the season's first case of West Nile virus. By late August, there were nearly 400. Nineteen people would die in the greater Dallas area in the worst West Nile outbreak...
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China in action to address climate change
2015-11-27 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: The UN Climate Change Conference in Paris will open Monday with representatives from 195 countries and the European Union gathering together to hammer out a comprehensive, balanced and ambitious deal to address climate change. As a key participant in a global fight against climate change, China has been making its due contribution for the goal. Recent years have witnessed China's concrete efforts on environmental management, energy saving and emission reduction and low-carbon technology development....
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Wake judge rules against teen facing off against NC on climate change
2015-11-27 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: Hallie Turner, the 13-year-old girl who took North Carolina to court over climate change, received disappointing news the day before Thanksgiving. A Wake County Superior Court judge ruled against her effort to overturn a December 2014 decision by the N.C. Environmental Management Commission. But with the pluck of a teen wise beyond her years, Hallie said Friday the ruling from Judge Mike Morgan had not deterred her. Its an issue that Im always going to continue trying to make a difference...
UN, France urge Commonwealth to support strong climate change plan
2015-11-27 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ottawa Citizen: The French president and secretary-general of the United Nations pleaded Friday at the Commonwealth summit for the world to unite and produce an ambitious agreement to combat climate change, with François Hollande saying man is the worst enemy of man. Their call for climate action on the eve of the United Nations climate-change conference in Paris came the same day Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $2.65 billion over five years to help developing countries deal with climate change. Hollande...
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Australia: Farmer attitudes to climate change across generations
2015-11-27 20:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The nation's farmers could be considered the sentinels of climate change; they are more attuned than most to long-term changes in weather patterns. But many of them are yet to be convinced that man-made climate change is real, arguing that floods and droughts are cyclical and extreme temperatures are nothing new. It is a view some younger producers are now challenging and they are reshaping their farming practices to suit the changing climate. Josh Gilbert's family has farmed at Nabiac in...
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