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EU finds new climate ally after Canadian election
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: The European Union may have found a new climate ally in Canada, after the Liberal Party won an unexpected majority in Monday`s federal elections, raising hopes the new government will revamp its climate policy at the COP21 summit in Paris. Canada`s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, signaled during the election campaign that he would break with the policies of incumbent Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party government, which was known for its promotion of the countrys high-carbon oil sands,...
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Pakistan's climate change 'time bomb' is already ticking
2015-10-20 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The sprawling megacity lies crumbling, desiccated by another deadly heatwave, its millions of inhabitants suffering life-threatening water shortages and unable to buy bread that has become too expensive to eat. It sounds like the stuff of dystopian fiction but it could be the reality Pakistan is facing. With its northern glaciers melting and its population surging - the country`s climate change time bomb is already ticking. In a nation facing violence and an unprecedented energy shortage slowing...
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Researchers project long-term effects of climate change, deforestation on Himalayan mountain basins
2015-10-20 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As part of an multi-disciplinary study, a team of Baylor researchers found that climatic changes, an increase in agricultural land use and population growth in the Himalaya Mountain basins could have negative impacts on water availability, further stressing a region plagued by natural disasters and food insecurity. The study--"Projected hydrologic changes in monsoon-dominated Himalaya Mountain basins with changing climate and deforestation"--is published in the Journal of Hydrology. Using a sophisticated...
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Fossils Show Humans, Not Climate, Affected Caribbean Island Creatures
2015-10-20 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Bahamas animal species were the ultimate survivors until one thing happened: humans showed up a mere 1,000 years ago, according to a new study of nearly 100 fossil species from a cave on that Caribbean island, according to a release. A team from the University of Florida recently published their findings on that in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In them, they concluded that human activities, and less so human-driven climate change in current days, are a threat to island biodiversity's...
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Climate Pledges Too Weak to Avert Disaster
2015-10-20 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: World leaders gathering in Paris in December for the 21st annual UN Climate Conference, COP21, are expected to sign a legally-binding international agreement to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Ahead of the conference, organizers have requested that countries submit Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, or INDCs, pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by an amount that supposed to be fair and ambitious. To date, 150 INDCs have been...
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