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Climate change is redefining the Australia of 'sunburnt country' poem
2014-03-03 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As one of the country's most popular and iconic poems laments, Australia is a "sunburnt country" of "droughts and flooding rains". Dorothea Mackellar's My Country endures with its "wide brown land" evoking "flood and fire and famine" and that "pitiless blue sky". According to the New South Wales State Library, My Country is the "universal statement of our nation's connection to the land". You can hear the echoes of Mackellar when Australian politicians are asked about the country's increasingly...
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Is climate change bad for your health?
2014-03-03 10:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Ilaria Bertini reports on a recent conference in London that sought to uncover the health effects of climate change. Is climate change bad for your health? This question was discussed at University College London (UCL) on Saturday during an event co-ordinated by student network Healthy Planet UK. As explained by Andy Haines, professor of public health and primary care at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, many diseases are sensitive to changing temperature. Examples include...
Despite climate change, Africa can feed Africa
2014-03-03 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily News: Climate change comes with never-before-experienced impacts. For example, crop yields and growing seasons will decrease even as changing rain patterns will worsen peoples access to water. Yet Africas population is projected to reach 2 billion in less than 37 years, and in 86 years three out of every four people added to the planet will be African. Decreasing crop yields and increasing population will put additional pressure on an already fragile food production system. That is why experts have...
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Buffett: Climate change not causing more disasters
2014-03-03 07:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Warren Buffett says the rate of disasters that Berkshire Hathaway's insurance companies see hasn't changed because of extreme weather. Buffett said on CNBC Monday that he hasn't made any change in the way he calculates the likelihood of a catastrophe because of climate change. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns several insurance and reinsurance funds and often has to pay significant claims when natural disasters strike. Buffett says insuring against hurricanes in the United States has been extremely...
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How climate change ended worlds first great civilisations
2014-03-03 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The worlds first great civilisations appear to have collapsed because of an ancient episode of climate change according to new research carried out by scientists and archaeologists. Their investigation demonstrates that the Bronze Age 'megacities' of the Indus Valley region of Pakistan and north-west India declined during the 21st and 20th centuries BC and never recovered because of a dramatic increase in drought conditions. The research, carried out by the University of Cambridge and...
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