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Nigeria: Climate change, biggest war of our time - Fashola
2013-03-15 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nigerian Tribune: GOVERNOR of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has described the ravaging climate change as the biggest war of our time, stressing that no war in human history has claimed as many lives as climate change has. Fashola stated this at the ongoing 5th Climate Change Summit in Lagos, with the theme: Vulnerability and adaptability to climate change in Nigeria: Lagos State transportation, housing and infrastructural sectors in focus. Fashola added it is a war we need to fight together and I am...
Indigenous women fight climate change
2013-03-15 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Latinamerica Press: Beginning two years ago, about 350 indigenous women farmers from 14 localities of the central Bolivian department of Cochabamba have been applying strategies to confront climate change. These women are part of communities from the municipalities of Tapacarí, Arque, Bolívar, and Sicaya, where in the last years the drought has worsened and there is a shortage of water reservoirs. According to the newspaper La Opinión, of every 10 watersheds, only two can supply water. Likewise, the lack of grasslands...
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Climate change: Pakistan, Italy join hands to identify adaptive measures
2013-03-15 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express Tribune: Pakistans only dedicated climate change research centre is going to partner with Italian experts to identify climate change adaptation measures. The Global Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC), which recently became an autonomous body by act of parliament, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ev-K2-CNR, an Italian research organisation that has worked in Pakistans northern areas for many years. The signing ceremony took place at the Ministry of Climate Change in Islamabad on Thursday....
Latest Species Threatened by Climate Change: Mussels
2013-03-14 06:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tyee: Ocean acidification -- which occurs when the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide -- threatens one of the most dominant life forms on shorelines, mussels, by making it tough for the bivalve to keep itself glued to rocks. Mussels rely on fine fibres, called byssal threads, to keep themselves anchored. Researchers at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories have been studying mussels' response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, including testing the animals' ability...
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Inslee climate change bill passes state Senate
2013-03-13 23:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: The Republican-controlled state Senate on Wednesday passed legislation aimed at developing ways to reduce state greenhouse-gas emissions, and meet targets set by the Legislature in 2008. Senate Bill 5802 passed by a vote of 37 to 12. The legislation, requested by Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, creates a work group thats supposed to come up with recommendations by the end of the year. A similar bill was introduced in the House, but Democratic leaders are expected to work with the version that...
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