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El Nino and climate change a dire recipe for Africa
2016-06-17 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The UN says 1.2 million under the age of five have acute malnutrition The most powerful El Nino weather event in half a century is officially over but its impact will be felt most severely in Africa, which is now in the grip of its most devastating drought in 35 years. Families across southern and eastern Africa had barely recovered from two years of erratic and failed rains, only to be hit by drought and dire food shortages. The United Nations said the food crisis is ruining lives on a...
30 Yrs After Scientists Alerted Congress to Climate Change, Signs Are Clearer
2016-06-17 13:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GreenTechMedia: The Energy Gang talks about shattered climate records-plus renewables overtaking natural gas and collaborative transmission planning. The Energy Gang talks about shattered climate records-plus renewables overtaking natural gas and collaborative transmission planning. Thirty years ago, a Republican-led Congressional committee held a two-day hearing on climate change. In June 1986, scientists didn't have the sophisticated measurement tools and supercomputer models that they have today. But they...
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Livestock’s Contributions to Climate Change: Facts and Fiction
2016-06-17 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - As the November 2015 Global Climate Change Conference COP21 concluded in Paris, 196 countries reached agreement on the reduction of fossil fuel use and emissions in the production and consumption of energy, even to the extent of potentially phasing out fossil fuels out entirely, writes Frank Mitloehner.
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2 researchers find that climate change can cause species relocation
2016-06-16 06:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily California: Researchers discover wildfires correlate with human activity, climate change Study by UC Berkeley professors links economic inequality, climate change Berkeley Lab scientists create model to map permafrost carbon, climate feedback Two researchers, including campus associate professor of public policy Solomon Hsiang, published a study June 9 that found that climate change characterized by a temperature increase of two degrees Celsius can cause species in the Tropics to migrate a significant distance...
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Climate change or not, power-starved India just can't help burning more coal
2016-06-15 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: More than a fifth of India's population lacks access to electricity, posing a major development challenge. India's prime minister Narendra Modi has promised to bring affordable access to electricity to all of these people by 2019. While Modi has committed to increasing renewable power generation, India is also increasing coal production. India is the world's third-largest coal producer and its second-largest coal importer. This is increasing the tension between development and India's efforts...
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