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Study Highlights Damages of Climate Change on Volta River
2013-07-22 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: A new report highlighting the damaging effects of climate change on West Africas Volta River basin was released at the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week in Accra, Ghana. The study was performed by the Ghana based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Researchs (CGIAR) Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). It examined the effects of climate change on water storage in Africa and detailed how...
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Study of climate change is search for evidence
2013-07-22 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Lexington Herald Leader: Martin Cothran's July 5 attack on Kentucky's science standards and the Next Generation Science Standards was unfounded and, to put it kindly, extremely odd and irrelevant. Cothran, a political lobbyist for the Family Foundation of Kentucky, lacks a background in science. Furthermore his organization is an extremely conservative religious one and does not have science advisors. In contrast, the NGSS were developed by educators and scientists in various states with the aid of the American Association...
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Why climate change should be a key health issue this election
2013-07-22 06:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation: Our perennial, ideologically-driven squabbling over whether and how to reduce carbon emissions is generally couched in terms of GDP, jobs, commercial competitiveness, household expenses and property safety. All are important, but the discussion is short-sighted, given the threat of unabated climate change to the very basis of population welfare, health, survival and social stability. Human-induced warming is increasing the likelihood of serious social and public health emergencies in Australia....
Climate change is making poison ivy grow bigger and badder
2013-07-22 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Poison ivy's shiny green leaves are gourmet cuisine for deer, bear and other animals. Birds like its white berries and spread the seeds by unmentionable means. But the leaves, berries and vine are the bane of humankind and primates. In the hours after the lacquer-like oil, urushiol, gets transferred at the slightest contact, mad scratching begins. Enough urushiol to fit on the head of a pin can cause misery for 500 people. Even a billionth of a gram of urushiol on the skin is said to cause agony....
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Climate Change Impacts Felt Far From Coasts
2013-07-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wunderground: Dramatic images of ocean waves lashing the coastline while floodwaters inundate city streets -- especially during storms like last year's Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Isaac -- may leave the impression that climate change is only, or at least mostly, a problem for cities along the coasts. But as this new interactive map created by the U.S. Department of Energy shows, the impacts of climate change are actually felt far and wide, as climate-related power outages occur in every corner of the country....
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