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Climate Change Brings New Risks to Greenland
2014-01-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When the world's miners, oil-workers, construction teams and industrialists descend on Greenland over the next few years to dig below the rapidly retreating icecap for its ores, hydrocrabons and minerals, no one will watch with more concern -- or confidence -- than Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond. Climate change is placing Greenland at the heart of 21st century geopolitics. As the ice retreats, it is moving from being a non-player in global affairs to the center of a new international resource rush....
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World Bank climate change envoy Rachel Kyte on new mission
2014-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: On a wintry morning in Washington DC (the area is awaiting a fresh blast of Arctic air and a 40F plunge in temperatures) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group vice-president and special envoy for climate change, answers the door to her clapboard house located just outside the city limits. Kyte is enjoying some time at home but is preparing for another gruelling trip across the globe, culminating in back-to-back meetings in Davos. This month she took up her new vice-president post after World Bank president...
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Frigid winter masks Climate Change in Rochester
2014-01-26 14:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: Probably the last thing worrying most folks in Rochester is Climate Change. This winter has been dangerously cold and threatens to worsen. But the big picture, which is hard to see in our region unless youre an expert on climate and our environment, is that our region is warming up, just like the rest of the world. As a matter of fact: Long-term global warming trend sustained in 2013NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term...
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Climate change: Food security should be top priority for Pakistan
2014-01-25 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dawn: Experts from various disciplines gathered at the Climate Change Conference in Karachi stressed a dire need for research on the issue in Pakistan as it ranked amongst countries highly vulnerable to the phenomena. The conference, organised by Habib University, highlighted the urgent need to incorporate climate change adaptation into the national climate policy. The keynote speaker, Dr Bruce McCarl, a disitinguised professor of Agricultural Economic at Texas A&M University, sounded the alarm and...
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Is climate change a northern catastrophe or an Arctic opening?
2014-01-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: This is part of The North, a Globe investigation of unprecedented change, to the climate, culture and politics of Canadas last frontier. Join the conversation with #GlobeNorth The Globes Artic Circle panel of experts and leaders is discussing five key questions about Northern issues. Their responses and conversations have appeared on Globe Debate. Doug Saunders: The crucial factor in the future of the North is the melting of the polar ice cap, already well underway. How will this change the lives,...
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