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Climate Change Is Young Peoples Lunch Counter Moment
2015-02-06 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Fifty-five years ago Jibreel Khazan of the Greensboro Four sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth store on Feb. 1, 1960 with three other classmates from North Carolina A&T University to highlight racial injustices in America. At that time, Jibreel and his classmates were fighting for equality, and the goal to desegregate the lunch counter across America became central in that fight. Today, while the fight for equality continues, because of climate change it is no longer just about equality,...
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White House: Climate change threatens national security
2015-02-06 17:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Obama administration looks at climate change as a threat to national security on par with terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and disease outbreaks. President Obamas national security strategy released Friday updates the previous plan published in 2010, with focuses on Russia, Islamic militants and health. Climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food...
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Funding drought threatens Zimbabwe climate change response
2015-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Zimbabwe is struggling to pay for measures to cope with climate stresses and weather-related disasters, such as recent floods, amid domestic spending cuts and slow progress in accessing international finance. The budget for the Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate has been reduced to $52 million for 2015, from $93 million set aside for 2014. As this year began with floods that have claimed some 20 lives and washed away villages, the funding squeeze has raised concerns about the country's...
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Climate change pushes India's poorest children into slavery
2015-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Disasters resulting from climate change are pushing poor Indian families into poverty so deep that they are lured by traffickers into selling their children into bonded labour or prostitution, Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Thursday. "I have witnessed many incidents where the children became the worst victims of environmental disasters caused by climate change and these kind of things," Satyarthi told Reuters TV on the sidelines of a conference on climate change. "It has resulted...
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Paradise lost: Dominicans adapt to growing climate change threat
2015-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Rocky Antonio Cabrera steps into a small fishing boat as another fisherman yanks on the starter cord bringing the motor to life. As the boat glides through thick mangroves in Manzanillo Bay, part of a national park in northwest Dominican Republic near the border with Haiti, Cabrera comments on high winds that arrived a month early this year -- a change he blames on the impact of global warming on weather patterns. Jesús Belliard, another local fisherman, sits at the back of the boat and checks...
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