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Dragonflies As Climate Change Prognosticators
2013-03-07 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Scientists exploring the speed and scope of climate change have often looked at flora and fauna in a particular region as a major indicator. Many of these plant species will adjust their inner clock leading to earlier and earlier periods of bloom. However, not all biological life forms are able to adjust to a change in climate so quickly, according to a recent report published by the European Environmental Agency. It is for this reason studies have also focused on climate sensitive communities of...
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Concern Over Climate Change Grows, Poll Finds
2013-03-07 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The percentage of Americans who are "alarmed' about climate change and motivated to do something about it increased to 16 percent between 2010 and 2012, according to a new poll. That is a jump of 6 percentage point over two years, which occurred as the percentage of Americans who are skeptical of climate change or doubt that it has significant impacts fell 8 percentage points, to 8 percent. Those findings, released Wednesday, are the latest results from the long-running "Six Americas' survey...
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How Climate Change Worsened Violence in Syria
2013-03-06 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: In October 2010, just months before a Tunisian street vendor self-immolated and sparked what would become the Arab Spring, a prolonged drought was turning Syria`s verdant farmland into dust. By last month, more than 70,000 Syrians, mostly civilians, had been killed in the brutal and ongoing conflict between President Bashar al-Assad`s dictatorial regime and a coalition of opposition forces; just today, the UN announced that over one million refugees fled the country in the last two years. International...
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Climate Change and Protecting Environment is a Social Justice Issue
2013-03-06 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthout: New book exposes relationship between environmental degradation and inequality of wealth and power PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. Now joining us from Amherst, Massachusetts, is James Boyce. He's the director of the Program on Development, Peace Building, and the Environment at the PERI institute. He's also a professor of economics at Amherst. Thanks very much for joining us, James. JAMES BOYCE, PROF. ECONOMICS, UMASS AMHERST:...
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The link between climate change and the food on your plate
2013-03-06 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indy Week: A North Carolina banana is small but sweet. About half the size of its Costa Rican counterpart, it grows from a single tree in Chatham County. There it winters inside a building at the Plant in Pittsboro. After the April frost, it sunbathes in the North Carolina heat and humidity until late fall. "My husband wants to be able to say bananas can be grown in North Carolina," laughs Tami Schwerin, executive director of The Abundance Foundation, which is located at the Plant. The group educates people...
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