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Climate change: China official warns huge impact
2015-03-22 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Climate change could have a "huge impact" on China, reducing crop yields and harming the environment, the country's top weather scientist has warned, in a rare official admission. Zheng Guogang told Xinhua news agency that climate change could be a "serious threat" to big infrastructure projects. He said temperature rises in China were already higher than global averages. China, the world's biggest polluter, has said its emissions of gases that cause climate change will peak by 2030. However,...
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Climate change 'big threat to China'
2015-03-22 11:43:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Climate change could harm crop yields and the environment in China, says the country's top meteorologist, in a rare official admission.
Climate change threatens world iconic ecosystems
2015-03-22 08:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Zee News: Without better local management, world's most iconic ecosystems are at risk of collapse under climate change, warn researchers. Protecting places of global environmental importance such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Amazon rainforest from climate change will require reducing pressures like over-fishing, fertiliser pollution and land clearing, they said. Writing in the journal Science, an international team of researchers warned that localised issues, such as declining water quality from...
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Adapting to climate change has repercussions
2015-03-21 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Adapting to climate change could have profound environmental repercussions, according to a new study from the University of East Anglia. Research in Nature Climate Change reveals that adaptation measures have the potential to generate further pressures and threats for both local and global ecosystems. Lead researcher Dr Carlo Fezzi, from UEA`s School of Environmental Sciences, said: "Climate change is a just a little bit more complicated than we previously thought. We need to take into account...
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Activists want probe of alleged Florida 'climate change' word ban
2015-03-21 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: About a dozen members of the environmental group Forecast the Facts showed up to the state capitol building in Tallahassee Friday to deliver more than 40,000 electronically signed petitions asking for the probe, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. The group members also demonstrated against such a policy by wearing duct tape over their mouths with the words "climate change" written across it. The petitions ask for an investigation by the inspector general of the Florida Department of Environmental...
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