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Climate change: Single greatest threat to our existence
2015-10-26 14:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Civil Beat: On Majuro in the Marshall Islands, the dead are so close to the living that Marshallese children play on concrete burial sites marked by white plinths and headstones. Land is so scarce on parts of this small island that this particular cemetery is squeezed between homes, some abandoned, each hugging a narrow, rocky coastline on the ocean side of the atoll. Giant tides exacerbate eroding soil and nearly a dozen graves have fallen into the sea and washed away. Several others appear poised to follow...
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How 'Third Way' Technologies Help Turn Tide on Climate
2015-10-26 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Massive seaweed farms that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and counteract ocean acidification. The widespread adoption of carbon fiber technology that extracts CO2 from the air and turns it into cars and other industrial products. Concrete manufacturing that is carbon-negative rather than the energy-guzzling Portland cement used today. And giant chiller boxes installed in Antarctica that super-freeze the Damien Pleming Tim Flannery already frigid air there, producing CO2 snow that can...
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World Catholic leaders appeal for bold climate change agreement
2015-10-26 13:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Roman Catholic leaders from around the world on Monday made a joint appeal to a forthcoming United Nations conference on climate change to produce a "fair, legally binding and truly transformational" agreement. The Catholic cardinals, patriarchs and bishops from across the globe signed the appeal in the Vatican, saying climate change had to be linked "to social injustice and the social exclusion of the poorest and most vulnerable of our citizens". Their 10-point document was based on Pope Francis's...
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Climate change a major health threat to children, doctors warn
2015-10-26 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Climate change poses a rising global public health and safety threat, and children are particularly vulnerable, the American Academy of Pediatrics says in a new policy statement. The group is urging pediatricians and politicians to work together to solve the crisis and protect children from the immediate and long-term health consequences of climate change. "There is nothing more important than protecting the health, welfare and future for our children and grandchildren," the statement's lead...
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PG&E Joins White House Climate Initiative, Says Modern Electric Grid Is Vital To Long-Term Clean Energy Goals
2015-10-26 06:22:12| pollutiononline Home Page
In a show of support for the Obama administration’s push for a strong international agreement on climate change, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) stood with the president and senior administration officials at the White House recentlyas they announced new pledges by major companies to reduce greenhouse gases and address the impacts of global warming
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