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Climate change has made a mammal extinct, great job humanity
2016-08-08 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Metro: For the first time ever, human-driven climate change has caused the extinction of a mammal. The Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent, lived only in the Great Barrier Reef but has been wiped out by rising sea levels, according to Australian researchers. Delta Air Lines grounds ALL flights after massive system outage The long-tailed, whiskered creature lived only on Bramble Cay, a tiny island between Australia and Papua New Guinea, and was thought to be the only mammal native to the Great Barrier...
Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech on Climate Change Makes a Difference Based on Statistics
2016-08-08 02:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It's no surprise how celebrities can cause a huge impact on world issues. In fact, thanks to Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar speech on climate change, it got people talking. A study done by a group of researchers from San Diego State University prove that DiCaprio certainly made an impression. John Ayers led the research along with colleagues from the University of California San Diego and Santa Fe Institute. They studied the statistics and how DiCaprio's speech on climate change affected data analysis....
Rio Olympics puts climate change front and centre
2016-08-07 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Rio de Janeiro is pitching this Olympics as the "green games", as Friday`s opening ceremony made clear. Ceremony director Fernando Meirelles -- best known for the film City of God -- used one of the biggest international platforms going to raise awareness about climate change. Each of the 11,000 competitors was given a seed to plant, which will create an athletes` forest in the Deodoro zone. "Climate change and the depletion of natural resources need our attention and the Olympic Opening...
Popular culture completely ignores climate change
2016-08-07 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Amitav Ghosh, arguably the foremost Indo-Anglian author of our generation, has penned his latest non-fiction, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, recently. After the elaborate Ibis trilogy, the Hungry Tide author, in his latest book, argues about our 'imaginative failure in the face of global warming'. In a brief conversation with CT on Wednesday at Tollygunge Club, the author spoke about his concerns over the wrath of climate change, his love for authoring non-fiction and...
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Scientists warn mankind will miss crucial climate change target eight months after agreeing it
2016-08-07 16:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A global warming limit agreed by world leaders with great fanfare is feared to be coming close to being broken just eight months on. Climate change scientists have warned it may be nearly impossible to keep global warming below the 1.5C target set at the Paris negotiations in December after temperatures peaked at 1.38C above pre-industrial levels in February and March. Met Office data analysed by Reading University professor Ed Hawkins showed average global temperatures were more than 1C over...
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