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Poll: Americans Starting to Worry About Climate Change Now That It Affects Their Lawns
2015-04-06 07:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Yorker: A new poll shows that Americans who were unconcerned about climate change as it wreaked havoc around the world are beginning to worry, now that global warming is affecting the appearance of their lawns. According to the poll, conducted by the University of Minnesotas Opinion Research Institute, rising sea levels, the destruction of habitats, and catastrophic weather conditions, such as hurricanes and tsunamis, have not served as the wake-up call to Americans that their lawns` unsightly barrenness...
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'India Should Guide World Fighting Climate Change,' Says PM Narendra Modi
2015-04-06 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: As he launched a National Air Quality Index on Monday morning at a two-day environment conference, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused western countries of double standards saying, "People who lecture us on environment protection refuse to give us nuclear fuel for clean energy." Here are 10 updates: The index has been launched for 10 cities initially, including Delhi, which has recently been declared the world's most polluted capital by the World Health Organisation or WHO, bringing pressure on...
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Climate change threatens goats
2015-04-06 05:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Durango Herald: The American mountain goat has been called the greatest mountaineer the peaks ever have known, but now that high altitudes are warming at a rate two to three times faster than the rest of the planet the animals future is less than certain. Bruce Smith, a wildlife biologist and author, spent three years studying the mountain goat and its habitat. He said the changing climate is also changing the rules of the game for animals that live on what he calls islands in the sky. They come down...
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Climate change paradox: Rainforests are being felled... world is getting greener
2015-04-05 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The dramatic demise of the worlds rainforests has caused concern for years while they have been chopped down at breakneck speed to grow crops and rear cattle yet the planet has actually become greener in the past decade, with the total amount of plant coverage soaring. The rise in vegetation is the result of a major tree-planting campaign in China and unintentional increases in grasslands and non-tropical forests in former Soviet states, Australia and Africa, as heavy rainfall and abandoned...
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Climate Change Makes Droughts in Australia Worse
2015-04-05 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change is making drought conditions in southwest and southeast Australia worse, with serious ramifications for people's health and the agriculture industry, a new paper has warned. The Climate Council report says projected decreases in average rainfall are linked to reduced agricultural productivity and increased suicide risk in rural areas. The Climate Council report states that since the mid-1990s, southeast Australia has experienced a 15 percent drop in rainfall during late autumn and...
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