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Meet the President Trying to Save His Island Nation From Climate Change
2015-10-09 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: As the president of the low-lying country of Kiribati, Anote Tong has been advocating for bold action to address climate change For millennia, the people of Kiribati have lived off the land, dwelling on their small islands located in the central Pacific Ocean. But over the last several decades, rising sea levels due largely to climate change have slowly eaten away at the countrys 313 square miles. Without action, the country of 102,000 people may disappear altogether over the next few decades....
Can Coal-Powered Turkey Get Serious about Climate Change?
2015-10-09 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Driving along the E5 highway, this ancient citys jumble of concrete block high-rises and Ottoman-domed mosques recedes into the distance. The future gleams. Sleek luxury condominiums and shopping malls tower over modern new suburbs. Orange construction cranes have taken up residence along the side of the roads, feeding the teeming citys seemingly endless building boom. Fueling Istanbuls growthand, as the countrys economic center, Turkeys development, as wellis coal. With the second-highest...
Unexpected information about Earth's climate history from Yellow River sediment
2015-10-09 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: By meticulously examining sediments in China's Yellow River, a Swedish-Chinese research group are showing that the history of tectonic and climate evolution on Earth may need to be rewritten. Their findings are published today in the highly reputed journal Nature Communications. To reconstruct how the global climate and topography of the Earth's surface have developed over millions of years, deposits of eroded land sediment transported by rivers to ocean depths are often used. This process is...
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China's econ shift promises to aid climate fight but packs a commodity punch
2015-10-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald: When officials in the southern end of the Chinese province of Shanxi feared their local golf course might attract unwanted attention from a nationwide crackdown on corruption, they artfully changed its name to the Yishan Ecological Park. China is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and that's increasingly acknowledged by China's leaders. Qi Ye, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Centre for Public Policy Compared with the new apartment towers and eight-lane highways slicing...
Twenty nations vulnerable to climate change seek more action
2015-10-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Twenty of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, from the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, will form a new group on Thursday to press for tougher action to curb warming. Draft documents for a meeting of finance ministers in Lima, Peru and seen by Reuters, said the 20 represented 700 million people in low- and middle-income nations that were arid, landlocked, mountainous or vulnerable to rising sea levels. The Vulnerable 20 (V20) group's draft action...
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