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Climate Change to Cost East Asia 5.3% of GDP, ADB Study Says
2013-10-17 02:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Climate change will lead to more flooding and drought in East Asia and could chop 5.3 percent off annual gross domestic product by the year 2100 if measures arent adopted to tackle it, according to the Asian Development Bank. Rising temperatures in China, Japan, Mongolia and South Korea will spur more flooding and tropical storms in coastal areas and make northern agricultural regions more prone to drought, the ADB said today in its Economics of Climate Change in East Asia report. The study...
How climate change is reshaping societies
2013-10-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: On the island of Kiribati, climate change is taking a heavy toll on the region and its inhabitants. Rising sea levels are forcing people to relocate to the main island. But a lack of jobs and opportunities to earn income has led to a rise in violence, especially within families. Local activists are trying to counter that with projects that engage a wide section of society. High on the agenda are initiatives that raise awareness about the need to protect the environment and fight climate change. ...
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Study: Climate change will significantly impact ocean health by 2100
2013-10-16 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: New research shows that human impact on the climate will heavily influence marine habitats by 2100, supporting a study earlier this month that showed coral reefs could be extinct by 2050. Climate change triggered by greenhouse gas emissions will influence every corner of the world ocean by that time, the researchers say. They predict that the changes will impact the 470-870 million people who depend on the oceans for their livelihoods. "When you look at the world ocean, there are few places...
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World ocean systems undermined by climate change by 2100
2013-10-16 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: An ambitious new study describes the full chain of events by which ocean biogeochemical changes triggered by humanmade greenhouse gas emissions may cascade through marine habitats and organisms, penetrating to the deep ocean and eventually influencing humans. Previous analyses have focused mainly on ocean warming and acidification, considerably underestimating the biological and social consequences of climate change. Factoring in predictable synergistic changes such as the depletion of dissolved...
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Pacific man seeks climate change asylum in New Zealand
2013-10-16 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Pacific Island man trying to flee rising seas and environmental risks caused by global warming in his home country of Kiribati asked a New Zealand court on Wednesday to let him pursue his claim as a climate change refugee. The low-lying South Pacific island nation has a population of more than 100,000, but its average height of 2 m. (6-1/2 feet) above sea level makes it one of the countries most vulnerable to rising waters and other climate change effects. Ioane Teitiota, 37, asked New Zealand's...
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