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Greenpeace: Climate change increasing threatens world security
2014-03-29 09:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Anyone who thought climate change was something happening far away, to someone else, should think again. According to the world's leading scientists, climate change is an increasing threat to human safety around the world. In a new report to be published in the end of March by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is expected to conclude that climate change puts lives, cultures and well-being at risk and can fuel forced migration, violence and conflicts. Their detailed...
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Give geoengineering a chance to fix climate change: David Keith
2014-03-29 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: As the term implies, geoengineering is engineering on a planetary scale. It involves attempting to arrest the course of climate change through mega-projects - by seeding the atmosphere with reflective particles, for example, or by putting gigantic mirrors in orbit around the Earth to reflect sunlight back to space, or by fertilizing the ocean with iron to stimulate the growth of carbon-absorbing plankton. Bob McDonald on IPCC Climate change report A case for climate engineering 'Planet hacking'...
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UN boosts Ethiopia`s climate change network
2014-03-28 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
APA: The UN Economic Commission for Africa, has delivered 23 computers to the Ethiopian Government in a bid to tackle the threat of climate change in the country. The Commission made the donation through its organ, the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) to the Ethiopian National Meteorological Agency (NMA). The UN Agency said Ethiopia was among African countries that are highly vulnerable to climate change and climate variability with extreme weather events expected to increase with climate change....
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Climate change threatens India tea production
2014-03-28 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Tea producers in India, where one-third of the world`s tea is grown, are suffering because of changes in temperature and rainfall caused by climate change, experts and tea garden owners have said. Though it makes the world`s most popular drink -- after water -- tea is a very delicate plant, vulnerable to changes in temperature and precipitation. Such problems are piling expenses on producers, who say they can`t increase prices because of market competition. Speaking to the BBC, producers...
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IPCC report: climate change felt 'on all continents & across the oceans'
2014-03-28 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change has already left its mark "on all continents and across the oceans", damaging food crops, spreading disease, and melting glaciers, according to the leaked text of a blockbuster UN climate science report due out on Monday. Government officials and scientists are gathered in Yokohama this week to wrangle over every line of a summary of the report before the final wording is released on Monday the first update in seven years. Nearly 500 people must sign off on the exact wording of...
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