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India: 'Climate Change has Put Focus on Necessity of Renewable Energy'
2016-02-14 16:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Express: Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday said climate change has put the focus on the necessity of renewable energy and this is also being used as an opportunity to help the transition to a cleaner and greener world. Speaking after inaugurating World Utility Summit (WUS), during ELECRAMA 2016 - World Electricity Forum, the Minister said that PM Narendra Modi has come up with a new idea of Global Solar Alliance that aims for around 125 countries to collaborate and together chase this sustainable...
Australia: Climate change: Victoria should be doing more to cut emissions
2016-02-14 15:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: It may not be apparent yet, but the most important and enduring legacy of President Barack Obama's two terms in the White House may prove to be the Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The plan gives teeth to the United States' promise of compliance with globally agreed temperature targets, set two months ago at the UN climate change talks in Paris. The plan hinges on having the US Environmental Protection Agency require states to curb coal-fired power stations' carbon-dioxide...
Turtles face climate change threat as warming beaches turn eggs female
2016-02-14 04:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Researchers investigating the impact of rising temperatures on sea turtles are travelling to some of the most remote beaches in Australia to work out which populations are at risk of being feminised into extinction. In a phenomenon being seen worldwide, warming temperatures are resulting in an increasing number of turtles eggs hatching female. The race is now on to work out which rookeries are most at risk in Australia, with a University of Western Australia (UWA) team focused on turtle breeding...
Why fighting anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers often backfires
2016-02-14 00:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: If theres a war on science, its not just one war. And branding people who disagree with you about vaccines, climate change, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as the enemy may be unwittingly fueling the conflicts. Those were some of the arguments made at a session here today at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science). The presenters included a philosopher, a medical historian, a plant scientist, and a technology historian. Their talks underscored that the people who worry...
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Climate change is awfully hard on native plants
2016-02-13 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Willis Linn Jepson encountered a squat shrub while he was collecting botanical specimens on Californias Mount Tamalpais in the fall of 1936. He trimmed off a few branches and jotted down the location along the ridge trail where the manzanita grew, 2,255 feet above sea level. The desiccated specimen is now part of an herbarium here thats named for the famed botanist. It was among hundreds of thousands of specimens of thousands of different species that were used recently to track the movement...
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