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Tasmanian farmers demand climate change action after floods ruin farms
2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC Australia: Damian Atkins on the banks of the Mersey River, among the debris left behind by floodwaters. (Laura Poole) Related Story: Did climate change influence the weekend's storms? Map: Mole Creek 7304 Some flood-affected Tasmanian farmers want to see more action on climate change, a topic which has received little debate during the election campaign. Cropping, dairy, livestock and horticultural producers farming on waterways across north and west Tasmanian have watched their hard work wash away during...
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Australia: Risk register for climate change: report
2016-06-14 09:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: A key economic development body says Australia needs to start considering the cost of carbon emissions and establish a National Risk Register to help it plan for disasters associated with climate change. A new report from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) says that an estimate of the social cost of carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions - that is the economic damages associated with increased emissions - is needed to evaluate responses to climate change. CEDA on...
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Climate change makes a comeback with the help of social media
2016-06-14 07:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation AU: In what has been shaping up as the election that forgot climate change, there are signs emerging in the Coalitions election campaign that it is starting to listen to polls, its own focus groups and social media chat on climate. So far it is the Great Barrier Reef that has drawn out the biggest campaign fight on climate. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that A$1 billion of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) fund would be directed towards a Reef Fund. 10% of the money from...
Human-induced climate change wipes out first mammal species: Study
2016-06-14 06:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kathmandu Post: Human-induced climate change appears to have driven the Great Barrier Reef's only endemic mammal species into the history books, according to a report published in The Guardian. In an exclusive report by the British News portal, the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent that lives on a tiny island in the eastern Torres Strait, which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea, has been completely wiped-out from its only known location. The rodent, also called the mosaic-tailed...
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Watching climate change is the key to predicting the next Zika
2016-06-13 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Post: British scientists say they have developed a model that can predict outbreaks of zoonotic diseases those such as Ebola and Zika that jump from animals to humans based on changes in climate. Describing their model as "a major improvement in our understanding of the spread of diseases from animals to people", the researchers said it could help governments prepare for and respond to disease outbreaks, and to factor in their risk when making policies that might affect the environment. "Our...
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