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Zika And Climate Change: What You Need to Know
2016-01-29 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery News: The rapid rise of the Zika virus is turning into a full-on public health crisis. The virus, transferred via specific types of mosquitoes, is now spreading explosively across Latin America, according to Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). There could be up to 4 million cases right now, just eight months after the first case was reported in Brazil. There are 23 countries where the virus is active. Zika Virus Likely to Hit US Before Vaccine A number of factors...
British people as unconcerned about climate change as Americans and Saudis
2016-01-29 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: In a survey of 17 countries, the people of Britain has ranked 15th in its concern over climate change. The UK, US and Saudi Arabia are the three countries least concerned among the group surveyed by YouGov. Only 10.8% of Britons ranked climate change as their most important issue. Hong Kong is the most concerned, with 20 per cent of those surveyed choosing the issue ahead of eight others. The Scandinavians countries are also among the more concerned. They and the Chinese, the French,...
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New Zealand: Regionalising climate change targets 'not unreasonable' but challenging
2016-01-29 05:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Southland Times: Southland could have its own goals for combating climate change - but getting councils on board could prove challenging. Australian, British and Swiss scientists argue in an article for science journal Perspectives that global targets to try and limit global warming to 2degC do not adequately address the urgency of the need to cut back carbon emissions. They say individual regions should set their own targets, as not every country will be affected by climate change in the same way. STEPHEN...
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Sanders shuts down teen climate change denier: 'You're wrong.'
2016-01-28 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Bernie Sanders shut down a teenage girl who questioned the existence of manmade global warming on Thursday morning, to the delight of her classmates. A girl who introduced herself as a a "17-year-old biracial female," said that "from looking at the evidence I've seen the last few years... I haven't seen any actual scientific evidence that global warming is actually happening." "Thank you for your question. You're wrong," Sanders said with a chortle as the teen crowd at Theodore Roosevelt High...
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Climate Change Could Tell Us Where Zika Virus Spread Next
2016-01-28 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: It sounds like the plot for a horror movie: A virus with subtle, easily overlooked symptoms (cough, fever, rash) that has the potential to cause serious birth defects and long-term neurological problems is carried by a tiny mosquito thats rapidly spreading throughout the world. Global travel and climate change are creating conditions perfectly designed to increase that mosquitos breeding potential and lengthen its biting season, leading scientists to use the term pandemic to describe the Zika...
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