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Dead heat: Climate change brings killer heat waves
2014-06-03 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: This comic was produced by Years of Living Dangerously and Symbolia Magazine. You can read more of their comics exploring the impacts of climate change here.
Australia: Barack Obama's climate change moves put heat on Tony Abbott
2014-06-02 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: A dramatic acceleration of America's response to climate change, including strong caps on coal-fired pollution threatens to expose Australia's humble 5 per cent emissions reduction target by 2020 as too low and out of step with the rest of the world. The US move may overshadow the first bilateral talks between Prime Minister Tony Abbott and President Barack Obama to take place in Washington next week. Those talks will cover trade, economic and strategic issues but with climate change again dominating...
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EPA Fighting Against Climate Change With New Clean Power Plan
2014-06-02 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency, at the direction of the Obama Administration, unveiled the Clean Power Plan, which would cut carbon emissions from exiting power plants. The move, framed as an attempt to fight climate change, would cost between $7.3 billion and $8.8 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. The EPA said the plan would eventually save between $55 billion and $93 billion in pollution-related costs. "Climate change, fueled by carbon pollution, supercharges...
EPA's climate change proposal focuses on emissions from power plants
2014-06-02 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: A new proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turns the spotlight on emissions from the energy sector, proposing that power companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. As Gina McCarthy, administrator for the EPA, explains in the video above, it's an attempt to give states a flexible path to reaching the lofty goal instead of a one-size-fits-all approach. "The flexibility of our Clean Power Plan affords states the choices that...
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How climate change and a deadly fungus threaten our coffee supply
2014-06-02 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: In the next 24 hours, the world will guzzle 1.6 billion cups of coffee, the most popular beverage on the planet besides water and tea. It`s big business, too: Global coffee exports totaled $28.6 billion in 2013--after oil, it is the world`s most traded commodity. But there`s something else that likes coffee even more than humans: Hemileia vastatrix, better known as coffee rust or roya disease. It`s a fungal parasite that survives on coffee tree leaves, and in the 2012-13 crop year alone, it caused...
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