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Climate change to affect Philippines future credit ratings
2014-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Mirror: The Philippines was cited as one of the countries most vulnerable to the risks, financial or otherwise, of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a report released by Standard & Poors (S&P) on Friday. Others on the S&P list were Vietnam, Bangladesh, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Their vulnerability is in part due to their reliance on agricultural production and employment, which can be vulnerable to shifting climate patterns and extreme weather events, but also due...
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Wildfires and Climate Change: It's Enough to Make You Sick
2014-05-17 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Street: This week started off ominously with two independent teams of scientists saying that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is collapsing as a result of man-made global warming. The melt could put coastal cities under water in the not-too-distant future. Turned out that was only the start of the week's bad news for the globe. Since then, California wildfires have begun raging again, this time near San Diego. The early start to the season of vicious, destructive infernos is evidence that climate change is...
Climate Change Harms Fresh Water Quality
2014-05-17 09:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chapelboro: A study published in Global Change Biology claims that the quality of fresh water is beginning to diminish in lower elevation forests, and that climate change is to blame. The director of the Institute for the Environment, and distinguished professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lawrence E. Band, states that the lower elevated watersheds are becoming greatly stressed due to the recent frequency of droughts in those areas. If we become more dependent on upper...
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Climate Change Research Axed in Australia
2014-05-17 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian Liberty Voice: The fallout from the new governments budget is still being seen in Australia, but it is already obvious that climate change is a loser when it comes to funding. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has long been skeptical of global warming and the science behind it, but with his new-found legislative power it seems as though he is looking at making that viewpoint into law. According to critics, there is no longer even the pretence of working towards limiting the effects of climate change as the government...
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Students hopeful in climate change fight
2014-05-17 03:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Adirondack Daily Enterprise: Students featured in a recently released documentary film hope it helps spread their message of optimism in fighting climate change. "I hope it shows people not only the consequences of climate change - you don't want to bring people down - but it gives them that spark of hope, too, that one person or a small group of people can make that change in their lives, or in their schools, that will affect plenty of more people, " said Lake Placid High School junior Cody Bary. Bary, LPHS senior Erin...
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