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Harvard Researchers Connect Climate Change to Higher Skin Cancer Rates
2013-04-12 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: [Editor's note: As we begin to enjoy warmer weather, we need to connect the dots between climate change and its impacts on human health, including skin cancer. The World Health Organization, provides detailed information on risks to humans from stratospheric ozone depletion and ultraviolet radiation.] For decades, scientists have known that the effects of global climate change could have a devastating impact across the globe, but Harvard researchers say there is now evidence that it may also...
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Study: Earth's climate change is heating oceans
2013-04-12 08:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The temperature of Earths atmosphere has been essentially the same for the past decade or so, providing ammunition for skeptics of human-caused climate change. However, a recent study found that heat absorbed by Earths oceans has increased significantly over the same period, prompting the studys co-authors to say the warming has been diverted and is heating the oceans instead of the atmosphere. The study was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American...
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Canada's Environment Minister Announces New Climate Change Initiative in U.S
2013-04-12 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: The rupture of a pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude to Texas on March 29 highlighted to many Americans the potential danger of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The spill caused the evacuation of a neighbourhood in Mayflower, Ark., as more than 19,000 barrels of crude contaminated streets, a local creek, sidewalks and lawns and it has renewed the challenge of persuading Americans that the Keystone XL, which will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to Texas, is a safe bet....
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Obama Talks 'Climate Change' with UN Secretary General
2013-04-11 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weekly Standard: President Barack Obama talked about "climate change" with the U.N. secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, today at the White House. Via the pool report: On North Korea: We will continue to try to work to resolve some of those issues diplomatically even as I indicated to the Secretary General that the United States will take all necessary steps to protect its people and to meet our obligations under our alliances in the region. Obama said they talked about Middle East peace, where there is at least...
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Climate Change Drives Spread of Invasive Plants in Cuba
2013-04-11 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Botanist Ramona Oviedo has spent decades combing the countryside in Cuba to study and curb the spread of invasive plant species, a serious problem that has been aggravated by climate change. Global warming "can worsen the impact of invasive plant species, which are more resistant than Cuba`s native flora," Oviedo, a researcher at the Ecology and Systematics Institute (IES), said in an interview with IPS. The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity defines invasive alien species as...
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