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Think Todays Refugee Crisis is Bad? Climate Change Will Make it a Lot Worse
2015-06-30 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Last year was the worst year on record for refugees. The number of people fleeing war and persecution jumped to nearly 60 million, the highest figure since the United Nations refugee agency began keeping records 50 years ago, and that doesnt even include people driven from their homes by poverty, gang violence or natural disasters. Smugglers are preying on refugees, social services in poor Middle Eastern and African countries have been stretched to the limit, and Europe and Australia are turning...
Worth saving: landscapes threatened by climate change - gallery
2015-06-30 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We asked you for photos of places you want to save from rising tides, changing temperatures and natural disasters.
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China makes carbon pledge ahead of Paris climate change summit
2015-06-30 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 60-65% from 2005 levels under a plan submitted to the United Nations ahead of crucial climate change talks in Paris later this year. The pledge has been eagerly awaited as the country is the worlds largest carbon emitter. China said it would increase the share of non-fossil fuels as part of its primary energy consumption to about 20% by 2030, and peak emissions by around the same point, though it would...
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How dramatic climate change Southern Sahara reduced largest freshwater lake desert dunes
2015-06-30 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers from Royal Holloway, Birkbeck and Kings College, University of London used satellite images to map abandoned shore lines around Palaeolake Mega-Chad, and analysed sediments to calculate the age of these shore lines, producing a lake level history spanning the last 15,000 years. At its peak around 6,000 years ago, Palaeolake Mega-Chad was the largest freshwater lake on Earth, with an area of 360,000 km2. Now today's Lake Chad is reduced to a fraction of that size, at only 355 km2. The...
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Climate Change Demands Moral Change
2015-06-29 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: "God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."" (cf. Gen 1:28). Whether or not you are religious, this iconic phrase from the Book of Genesis has had immense influence on the way you live. So much of what has come before you, be it Enlightenment thought, the Industrial Revolution, urbanization or otherwise, has been...
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