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Women and climate change injustice: thoughts from the Paris talks
2015-12-10 14:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Winnie Byanyima, director of Oxfam International I saw my mother working in womens clubs to increase incomes, do childcare, keep girls in school. I was very aware as a little girl that I had to claim rights. It is a life story it only became my job much later. Climate change is an issue of justice. The poorest are the most vulnerable, particularly women. The drudgery of domestic work, of unpaid labour, is getting worse because of climate change. Womens roles are still quite rigid. Devastation...
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Kiribati's climate change Catch-22
2015-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: As world leaders try to hammer out a deal on climate change in Paris, a number of Pacific nations will be watching with interest. The impoverished country of Kiribati is one of them, having little resources to combat the issue. The BBC's Tim McDonald details its dilemma. Bwebweata Atiana ties his tiny hut to a pandanus tree. Almost every month, the high tide batters the beach next to it. Water washes all the way up to the main road that runs through his village here on Marakei, a small atoll about...
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Climate Change Puts Food Security Progress At Risk, USDA Says
2015-12-09 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Climate change is likely to impede progress on reducing undernourishment around the world in the decades ahead, according to a major scientific assessment released by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on global food security and its implications for the US.
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Republic Services recognized in climate change report
2015-12-07 18:43:25| Waste Management - Topix.net
Phoenix-based Republic Services Inc. is among the top companies recognized by CDP, a leading international nonprofit organization dedicated to measuring and disclosing environmental information, in the CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report 2015. The report features companies that demonstrate science-based strategies for reducing their impact on climate change.
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Climate Change Is Killing Us, Literally Here's How
2015-12-07 15:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Climate change may be bad for people but it's good for bugs. Germs of all kinds as well as mosquitoes and other disease carriers will live longer in warmer weather because cold kills them. They'll find more areas with the hot, humid conditions they need to thrive. Disease-carrying insects have already begun to move into new territory, climbing higher up the Andes in South America and reaching further north into Canada and the U.S. to spread what were once considered tropical diseases like West...
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