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Climate change creating longer, more intense fire seasons, warns interior secretary
2015-06-13 05:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post-Intelligencer: Climate change is a burning issue for the United States and particularly the American West, according to U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, whose department has to fight increasingly intense forest and range fires. In a tweet Friday, Jewell warned: Fire seasons are longer and more intense from climate change. They damage landscapes vital for wildlife and people. The 23,000-acre Taylor Bridge fire, east of Cle Elum, consumed forests and threatened homes in 2012. Fires on the east slope...
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Climate change causing a headache for Assam tea growers in India
2015-06-12 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The blistering afternoon sun beats down on my face. Normally by this time of day in May, dark clouds would be gathering, preparing for an almighty downpour. But there are no clouds in sight. The lush-green, perfectly manicured tea plants extend as far as my eyes can see. Women wearing woven bamboo hats are dotted around the plantation, plucking leaves and putting them in baskets attached to their backs. The work looks gruelling in this heat. And there's trouble brewing in the plantations of...
Climate change a great risk to food security'
2015-06-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Times: The Climate Change Ministry and World Food Programme (WFP) have agreed to work together to address climate risks to agriculture sector and issues of escalating food insecurity and malnutrition in the country. Boosting agriculture productivity cannot be achieved as long as the sector is not climate-resilient and able to sustain climate-induced disasters, such as floods, heavy rains, hailstorms and shifting weather patterns, said WFP Country Director Lolo Castro during her meeting with Climate Change...
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Ancient Ice Sheet Collapse Triggered Strong Climate Change
2015-06-12 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: With climate change already impacting various parts of the world, scientists have started looking into Earth's past in order to better predict how it will affect our future. To add to growing evidence, a new study has found that ice sheet collapse 135 million years ago triggered events of strong global climate change. The Cretaceous period, 145 to 66 million years ago, was one of the warmest times in Earth's history - though some say it was interrupted with a significant cold snap. During this...
Canada: Climate change fight will hamper oil sands returns: Statoil exec
2015-06-12 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Financial returns in the oil sands stand to weaken under the most sweeping efforts to fight global climate change, a top oil producer said Thursday, as some of the industrys leading companies call for increased carbon fees. Statoil ASAs chief economist said that high-cost projects in oil sands and ultra deepwater deposits would struggle to adapt should the industrialized world move aggressively to limit global warming by no more than 2 C above preindustrial levels. Eirik Waerness said such an...
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