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Climate change: UN makes high-risk attempt to break deadlock on talks
2013-09-20 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The United Nations secretary general is to invite world leaders next week to an unprecedented summit on climate change, in the hope of breaking the long deadlock on global warming talks. The high-risk strategy will put heads of state and government together to talk about the issue for the first time since the Copenhagen summit in 2009 ended in scenes of farce and disarray. Ban Ki-moon has decided he must convene the meeting because of the stalemate in the talks for the past four years, with international...
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Republicans block science laureate vote over climate change stance fear
2013-09-20 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It seemed entirely harmless: the creation of an honorary and unpaid position of science laureate of the United States to travel around the country and inspire children to be future scientists. But Republicans in Congress last week quashed the initiative, which had gained rare bipartisan support, on the grounds that a science laureate might support action on climate change. The bill had been scheduled for swift approval last week. It would have allowed Barack Obama to name up to three laureates...
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Climate Change Linked Higher Chemical Load in Polar Bear Diet
2013-09-20 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Polar bears are changing their diets to adapt to climate change, a new study has found. Researchers also found that a change in the diet has led to increase in toxic chemicals in the bears' bodies. The study was conducted by researchers from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Aarhus University (Denmark) and their colleagues. The team found that the diet of polar bears has changed over the past few decades and their tissue samples are showing high levels of contaminants. Polar bears...
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Australia's New Conservative Prime Minister Abolishes Climate Change Watchdog
2013-09-19 10:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia's new conservative government on Thursday abolished an independent climate change commission set up by the previous Labor administration, as part of its plans to streamline bureaucracy. The Climate Commission was set up to provide apolitical and reliable information to the public about the science of climate change, emissions targets and international action being taken. But Prime Minister Tony Abbott's conservative coalition, which plans to repeal Labor's tax on corporate pollution...
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Climate change could kill off Andean cloud forests
2013-09-18 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: One of the richest ecosystems on the planet may not survive a hotter climate without human help, according to a sobering new paper in the open source journal PLoS ONE. Although little-studied compared to lowland rainforests, the cloud forests of the Andes are known to harbor explosions of life, including thousands of species found nowhere else. Many of these species-from airy ferns to beautiful orchids to tiny frogs-thrive in small ranges that are temperature-dependent. But what happens when the...
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