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Climate change threatens Ghana's coast
2013-12-28 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Ask anyone in this fishing village along Ghana's eastern coast where they grew up, and they'll likely point south, towards the blue waves of the Gulf of Guinea. The ocean has encroached on areas that were once land, dry enough for the villagers of Totope to grow crops, build homes and raise families. It's all gone now, buried by crushing waves and shifting sands that have forced the village of a few thousand to move onto swampy land reclaimed with an unreliable mix of sand and trash. The...
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Climate Change Activist Shatters World Record for Fastest Trip to South Pole
2013-12-27 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: It`s official--climate change champion Parker Liautaud has completed the fastest-ever unsupported walk from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole. The 19-year-old is also the youngest person to ever reach the North and South Poles. The 2013 Willis Resilience Expedition--traveled with veteran explorer Doug Stoup to shine a brighter light on climate change advocacy--took 18 days, four hours and 43 minutes. The duo skied about 315 miles for up to 12 hours a day at an average pace of 17.4 miles...
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Climate Change Real, Human-Caused
2013-12-26 19:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: 2013 was among the hottest years ever, spurred by the highest accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on record. 2013 was another year of extreme weather. It began in January with sweltering temperatures in Australia. According to Joes Lisonbee of Australia's Alice Springs weather bureau, Alice Springs airport has seen the most consecutive days above 42 (degrees Celsius) for any time of the year. So far, including today, we have had nine consecutive days. The year was marked around...
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Climate Change Threatens Perus Economic Progress As Amazon Becomes Net Emitter of CO2
2013-12-26 18:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Peru is the country chosen to host the 2014 United Nations (UN) climate conference, a key meeting for trying to advance an ambitious plan to rein in greenhouse emissions which is planned for agreement in 2015. Scientists think Peru`s role reversal from being a carbon sink to a net emitter of CO2 in 2012 is result of droughts in the western Amazon. Photo credit: tadd_debbie /Flickr But the country has recently earned a rather more dubious distinction. In 2012, for the first time, the Peruvian...
Climate Change Roulette and Water Scarcity
2013-12-25 22:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that climate change is likely to put 40 percent more people worldwide at risk of absolute water scarcity, due to changes in rainfall and evaporation. Unsurprisingly, the study noted that Expected future population changes will, in many countries as well as globally, increase the pressure on available water resources. With a mid-range United Nations...
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