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Climate Change, Arctic Security, and Methane Risks
2016-09-05 19:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Arctic Institute: Over the past year, the climate risks of methane (CH4) released from natural sources have attracted increasing media attention in scientific and media forums as the Arctic climate threat that nobodys even talking about yet.1) Scientific journals have likewise run articles detailing the risks that methane, in addition to CO2, poses to atmospheric climate change, following scientific research indicating the 2 degree Celsius limit of climate talks may be physically impossible.2) Methane therefore...
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Climate change threatens to double malaria risk from African dams, say researchers
2016-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The number of Africans at risk of malaria who live near dams will nearly double to 25 million by 2080 as areas where the disease is not currently present will become transmission zones due to climate change, researchers said on Monday. Without prevention measures, the number of malaria cases associated with dams could triple to nearly 3 million a year over the same period, they said in a study published in Malaria Journal. "While dams clearly bring many benefits ... the role of climate change on...
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High time India acted on climate change, Chinas state-run media says
2016-09-05 09:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Without mentioning that China thwarted India's Nuclear Suppliers Group membership+ , Beijing-run media said it is "high time" New Delhi shows it means business when it comes to limiting the effects+ of climate change+ . "India has striven to become a world power and to have a bigger say in international affairs, hence it needs to shoulder its due responsibilities+ and take actions, regardless of the difficulties, to help save the planet," said an article in the Chinese government-run Global Times....
Climate change agreement - US and China must work on emissions
2016-09-04 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Examiner: THE problem about agreeing on paper to save the planet is the difficulty of actually getting down to the business of doing it in reality. That said, there can be no doubt people around the globe who care about the environment will applaud the move by America and China to ratify the Paris Climate change agreement aimed at saving Earth. With scientists at the coalface of this looming crisis warning that the world is now in grave danger of drowning in its own pollution, it would be hard to exaggerate...
Sadiq Khan and megacity mayors urge G20 climate change action
2016-09-02 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has joined forces with city leaders from around the world to call on governments to take urgent action on climate change. Ahead of a meeting of the G20 group of leading nations in Hangzhou, China, 30 mayors from cities including London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, New York, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro called on national leaders to work with them to build a low carbon, climate safe world. They welcomed government moves to secure the Paris Agreement, the worlds first comprehensive...
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