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Scientists to study climate change impact in Sunderbans
2014-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: Researchers from India, Britain and Bangladesh are studying the impact of climate change on livelihoods of those living in Sunderbans mangroves, the world's largest mangrove forests. More than two-thirds of the forest lies in Bangladesh, the focus of the study, and the rest in West Bengal. Under the ongoing Ecosystem Services For Poverty Alleviation (Deltas) project, as many as 50 experts from the three countries are investigating the impact of climate change on ecosystem services (benefits derived...
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Ignore Climate Change at Your Peril
2014-01-09 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Impossible to achieve sustainable development without addressing climate change. "Extremely dangerous," "Do not travel" -- these are the phrases that have welcomed in the new year along the East Coast of the United States. Extreme weather caused thousands of flights to be delayed, placed the elderly and other vulnerable people at risk due to the extreme cold and impacted negatively on supply chains. The increasing risk of extreme weather events due to climate change has been acknowledged by...
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United Kingdom: Storms' link to climate change uncertain - Met Office
2014-01-09 11:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The recent storms that have brought heavy rain and floods to much of the UK cannot definitely be linked to climate change, the Met Office has said. A spokesman said that was "a research project which hasn't been done". On Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron said he "very much" suspected that an increase in abnormal weather events was linked to climate change. Almost 100 flood warnings are still in place in England, along with one in Wales, but none remain in Scotland. Eight people...
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Is climate change behind US cold snap?
2014-01-09 10:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: The arctic blast that brought record low temperatures across the US in the past few days has provided fuel for global-warming sceptics, even as scientists debate whether the extreme cold might, in fact, be a consequence of a warming climate. "Of course, we can't say that this particular pattern is due to arctic warming, but it's very consistent with what we expect to see happen," said Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Arctic warming...
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Indonesian indigenous groups fight climate change with GPS mapping
2014-01-09 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IRIN: Indigenous communities in Indonesia are using GPS technology to demarcate the boundaries of their ancestral lands, a move many believe could also help mitigate the negative effects of climate change. "Community mapmaking has been a successful tool to show the government that we are here, and that we want to protect our lands," says Rukka Sombolinggi, a spokeswoman for the Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of the Archipelago (Aman), a Jakarta-based secretariat representing more than 2,000 communities....
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