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Climate Change in Minnesota: 23 signs
2015-02-01 21:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Minnesota Public Radio: Minnesota is warmer than it used to be. Rain falls in bigger downpours. Hay fever sufferers have a longer sneezing season, and the ticks that deliver Lyme disease are expanding their range. Red maple trees are moving north. So are purple finches. Moose numbers have shrunk. Without question, the state's climate has changed in recent decades. And that's had an impact on the lives of its wildlife, its plants, its people. 1. It's warmer From 1895 to 1970, Minnesota's average temperature rose...
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Did Climate Change Condemn Easter Islanders?
2015-02-01 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: The mysteries of the most isolated island in the world, Rapa Nui, commonly known as Easter Island, have baffled anthropologists and other scientists for generations, and one question about the curious inhabitants who erected those great, strange heads is what happened to the people who made them. The island is best known for 887 monumental rock statues, weighing up to 82 tons and mysteriously moved over considerable distances by ancient people who had no beasts of burden, but that's only part...
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Clean energy and climate change dominated PM Modi-Barack Obama meeting: Richard Verma
2015-02-01 11:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Issues related to clean energy and climate change had dominated the discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama during the latter's recent visit to India, US Ambassador to India Richard Verma today said. "When I look at the amount of time the two leaders spent time in I would say that clean energy and climate change dominated the discussions because our two countries have been really impacted by climate change. The challenge was what are we going to do together,"...
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Davos and Climate Change: 'Warning Shots' From Africa and Pacific
2015-02-01 05:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Diplomat: When global figures gathered in the Swiss resort of Davos last week for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) its 45th they were facing potentially the close of one era and the start of another. In its introduction to the meeting, the Geneva-based WEF secretariat said complexity, fragility and uncertainty could end the period of economic integration and international partnership that began in 1989, and would now involve major political, economic, social and technological transformation....
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Most Americans Support Government Action on Climate Change, Poll Finds
2015-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: An overwhelming majority of the American public, including nearly half of Republicans, support government action to curb global warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group Resources for the Future. In a finding that could have implications for the 2016 presidential campaign, the poll also found that two-thirds of Americans say they are more likely to vote for political candidates who campaign on fighting climate...
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