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Republicans ransom US Green Fund pledge ahead of Paris climate summit
2015-11-20 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Republicans are grappling to erode US climate credibility ahead of December`s Paris climate conference as payback for their exclusion from negotiations by President Barack Obama. GOP senators are taking ransom a US$3 billion pledge to the UNs flagship Green Climate Fund which helps developing countries tackle climate change. Unless the Republican-dominated Senate gets a vote on an anticipated new climate agreement, it wont release the $500 million first tranche. Americas contribution...
Sharks plight highlights climate threats
2015-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Global warming will be bad news for sharks - they will be hungrier, but they may not be able to scent their prey. And climate change already keeps polar bears ashore for an extra 30 days a year, away from their preferred supper. But Adélie penguins, whose numbers have increased 135-fold in the last 14,000 years as the Antarctic glaciers have retreated, may feel the benefit of a warmer world. And as Arctic temperatures rise and shrubs and plants colonise Alaskas North Slope, the moose and snowshoe...
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Challenge of Climate Change: an Indian perspective
2015-11-19 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Few countries in the world are as vulnerable to the effects of climate change as India is with its vast population (of over 1.2 billion) that is dependent on the growth of its agrarian economy, its expansive coastal areas and the Himalayan region and islands. In 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) database, revealed that thirteen of top 20 dirtiest cities were Indian. Delhi topped the list followed by Patna, Gwalior and Raipur. Realizing the problem,...
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Can cover crops help farmers combat climate change, drought?
2015-11-19 19:52:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
As harvest season ends and farmers in the United States ready themselves for winter, one small change could make a huge difference in their soils health and the health of our climate-impacted world: planting cover crops. read more
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British Columbia City to Put Climate Change Warnings Gas Pumps
2015-11-19 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Next time youre out of gas in North Vancouver, expect a shock as you fill up. Climate change warnings are coming soon to fuel stations, after the city council passed a law on Wednesday. The water-front city of 48,000 in British Columbia is believed to be the first in the world to slap obligatory labels on pumps. Mayor Darrell Mussatto said: It is 2015 and we need to talk about how we are going to move forward as a society on a reduced carbon or carbon-free diet and it is going to be a...
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