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Climate change threatens survival of snow leopard
2015-10-31 10:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asia News: More than a third of the natural habitat of the snow leopard could become hostile to the felines life because of climate change, thus further endangering a species whose population has declined by 20% in the past 16 years. These are the findings of a recently published report by WWF experts, entitled "Fragile connections - Snow leopards, people, water and the global climate. They are calling for "international action" to safeguard the fragile Himalayas mountain environment that, in addition, supplies...
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How Climate Change Threatens Zambias Already Fragile Nutrition Record
2015-10-31 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: It is slightly after 10 o'clock in the morning and 48-year-old Felix Muchimba of Siamuleya village in Pemba district has just finished having breakfast - a traditional drink called Chibwantu, made of maize meal and grit. Nutritionally, the drink does not offer much except energy for the day's work. Normally, the next meal should be one o'clock, followed by the final meal of the day taken in the evening. However, Muchimba and his six member family will be having their next and last meal of the...
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REDD+ And Carbon Trading Will Not Resolve The Climate Crisis
2015-10-31 08:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CounterCurrents: As with other mechanisms supported by "world climate governance", we doubted from the beginning that the Reduction of Emissions caused by Deforestation and the Degradation of Forests (REDD) mechanism would be likely to resolve the global climate crisis, ever since it was introduced in discussions on climate change. Now more than ever, the hidden face of this mechanism is revealed with the new market mechanism that is being devised and that may be adopted at the COP 21 in Paris in December 2015. The...
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Exxon Mobil Accused of Misleading Public on Climate Change Risks
2015-10-31 02:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: More than 40 of the nations leading environmental and social justice groups demanded a federal investigation of Exxon Mobil on Friday, accusing the huge oil and gas company of deceiving the American public about the risks of climate change to protect its profits. Stories from Our Advertisers In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the groups, citing recent news reports, suggested that Exxon Mobil might be guilty of the same kind of fraud that the tobacco companies were found to have perpetrated...
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Australia: Julie Bishop wants to co-chair Green Climate Fund derided by Tony Abbott
2015-10-31 01:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Foreign minister Julie Bishop has launched a bid to co-chair the Green Climate Fund once dubbed by Tony Abbott as the Bob Brown bank. Abbott had resisted making a contribution until Bishop announced at the Lima Climate Summit last year Australia would provide funding of $200m over four years in a total pool of $10bn. Australia is represented on the funds board by a senior representative of the Department of Foreign Affairs. It is seen as critical to the success of this Decembers climate...
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