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Climate change campaigners welcome China's plan to halve meat consumption
2016-06-21 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Climate change campaigners have welcomed new guidelines which urge Chinese consumers to eat 50 per cent less meat, even though food experts say enticing the country's growing urban middle classes away from beef and pork will be a huge challenge. The Chinese Nutrition Society last month called on consumers to reduce the amount of animal-based food they eat from about 300 grams to 200 grams a day and their meat consumption from about 62 kg to 27 kg per year. The Beijing-backed health agency hopes...
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Climate change will affect farmland bottom line: Economist
2016-06-20 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Iowa Farmer Today: Over the next 70 to 100 years, our climate is projected to change dramatically. The sector that is most likely to be affected by these changes is agriculture. A number of studies support this assertion, but relatively few look at the effect of climate change on agriculture from a comprehensive economic perspective, says a University of Illinois economist. An interdisciplinary team from the University of Illinois recently investigated the effects of climate change on farmland values in the Southwestern...
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Climate change 'the key to megafauna extinction'
2016-06-20 06:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Cosmos: Bears the size of cars and savage sabre-toothed cats that ruled the plains of ice age Patagonia were no match for a fatal combination of humans and climate change that wiped them out about 12,300 years ago, according to a new study. But contrary to previous research, humans alone did not cause their downfall. The fossil record shows humans had been at Monte Verde, on the edge of Patagonia, from about 14,600 years ago. That means the South American megafauna had coexisted with humans for up to...
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New Climate Change and Global Warming Records Unprecedented
2016-06-20 06:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Climate scientists are stunned at the latest findings that suggest the previous month May was the 13th month in a row to break previously held temperature records. Apart from the soaring heat recorded in February and March, alarm bells are ringing continuously in the form of extreme weather events, ranging from vanishing Arctic sea ice, droughts in India, the vast bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and flash floods in the UK and in Paris. "It is in my view highly unlikely that we would be...
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Researchers Investigate Economic Impact of Climate Change on Farms
2016-06-20 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - An interdisciplinary team from the University of Illinois recently investigated the effects of climate change on farmland values in the Southwestern United States.
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