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Climate Change Fight Sparks Renewed Debate in US
2015-08-22 15:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: The Obama administration's proposal to fight climate change by cutting carbon pollution is opening yet another round of political debate in the United States. And the fallout will be seen in contentious legal challenges from states in the coming months. Climate change has long been a politicized issue in the U.S. to a degree not found in other countries, experts say, even though its impacts span the globe. An Ipso Mori Global Trends poll found that Americans are generally much more skeptical...
Islamic Experts Urge Muslim Action Climate Change
2015-08-22 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A group of Islamic experts urged the world's 1.6 billion Muslims to do more to fight global warming, in a new example of religious efforts to galvanize action before a U.N. climate summit in Paris in December. In June, the world's most important Christian leader, Pope Francis, urged world leaders to hear "the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor" in an encyclical on the environment for the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. Unlike Roman Catholicism, Islam is a highly decentralized religion...
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Why climate change pushing Earth boreal forests tipping point
2015-08-22 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: International policy makers should set their sights on the protection of boreal forests, international forestry experts argued this week in an article published Thursday in the journal Science. The article was part of a special issue on forests released before the World Forestry Congress is held in September. Boreal forests have the potential to hit a tipping point this century, said Anatoly Shvidenko, a researcher scholar with the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at Austria's International...
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Study finds climate change makes California's drought worse
2015-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate change has aggravated California's devastating drought, causing between 8 and 27 percent of the dry conditions afflicting the nation's most populous state, a study released on Thursday has found. The study, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, is the first paper to estimate how much climate change has exacerbated the state's drought by sending moisture from plants and soils into the air, according to Columbia University, where the lead author works. Researchers examined...
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Climate change forcing boreal forest to a tipping point
2015-08-20 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Budapest Report: "Boreal forests have the potential to hit a tipping point this century," said IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management Program researcher Anatoly Shvidenko. "It is urgent that we place more focus on climate mitigation and adaptation with respect to these forests, and also take a more integrated and balanced view of forests around the world." Boral forests are believed to be among the ecosystems that are most sensitive to climate change. These forests thrive in regions such as Canada, Russia and...
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