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Climate Change Could Kill Half a Million Annually by 2050
2016-03-03 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The impacts of climate change on the global food supply could lead to more than 500,000 deaths a year by 2050, according to a new study in the Lancet. Droughts, floods and other climate-related impacts will hurt crop yields and reduce the amounts of fruits and vegetables available. On average, the consumption of fruits and vegetables will drop 4 percent by 2050, leading to an increase in malnutrition and disease, particularly in less developed countries. Without climate change, the study found...
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Climate change is a potent element in deadly brew of disaster risk
2016-03-03 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Hyogo framework for action (HFA), adopted in January 2005 by UN member states, was an unprecedented move to promote saving lives and livelihoods from disasters over a decade. Has there been progress? The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters and major insurance companies agree that, in 2015, figures for deaths, numbers of people affected and economic losses from disasters were below the 10-year average. But are we getting better at managing disasters, or are we actually reducing...
Food scarcity caused by climate change could cause 500,000 deaths by 2050
2016-03-03 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Vegetables, including broccoli, white onions and carrots, are displayed for sale on a fruit and vegetable stall at a market in Guildford, U.K., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg The effects of climate change on food production around the world could lead to more than 500,000 deaths by the year 2050, according to a grim new study. Climate-related impacts on agriculture could lead to an overall global decline in food availability, the research suggests, forcing people...
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Weak economy threatens first ministers' climate change summit: Walkom
2016-03-03 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tries to kick-start a climate-change deal with the premiers, the economy is doing him no favours. Statistics Canada reports that in inflation-adjusted terms, Canada's gross domestic product rose by just 1.2 per cent last year. It's not expected to do much better this year. Unemployment has shot up in oil-producing provinces like Alberta. Ontario is doing better, but not excessively so. All of this makes dealing with climate change more difficult. Premiers...
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Palo Alto to tackle climate change, block by block
2016-03-03 06:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: Palo Alto will be part of a three-city experiment to get residents to work block by block on sustainability and climate change goals in their daily lives. Climate change often is discussed broadly, but the Cool Block pilot program takes a "bottom-up" approach, said Sandra Slater, the Northern California director of the Cool City Challenge, an initiative of the Empowerment Institute. The program's goal is to get households to take action on climate change, be more socially connected with each...
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