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LA Times Criticizes Lack Of Climate Change Questions In Presidential Debates
2016-05-26 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Times editorial board lamented that climate change has been largely overlooked in presidential election coverage so far, despite it being the most pressing issue of our time. The Times pointed to a Media Matters analysis, which found that through the first 20 presidential primary debates, moderators only asked 22 questions about climate change, making up just 1.5 percent of the 1,477 questions asked during the debates. Instead, debate moderators have focused on the political...
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From Easter Island to Stonehenge, climate change threatens iconic tourist sites
2016-05-26 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Extreme weather is becoming one of the biggest risks to World Heritage icons like the Polynesian Easter Island or Britain's Stonehenge, posing a threat to tourism and economies alike, scientists and U.N. experts said on Thursday. Developing countries such as Nepal, home to Mount Everest, and Uganda, where tourists travel to see mountain gorillas, may be particularly hard hit as they rely on income from tourism more than developed countries, the experts said in a report. "For them it's a very...
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Statue of Liberty and Venice under climate change threat, UN report
2016-05-26 16:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change now poses the single biggest threat to the worlds most famous heritage sites including the Galápagos islands, the Statue of Liberty, Easter Island and Venice according to a UN sponsored report. The researchers looked at 31 natural and cultural world heritage sites in 29 countries that are vulnerable to increasing temperatures, melting glaciers, rising seas, more intense weather, worsening droughts and longer wildfire seasons. They believe this number is the tip of the iceberg....
Did climate change kill over 200000 Kazakh antelopes?
2016-05-26 00:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Nearly half of the world's population of the saiga - a species of antelope older than the mammoth - were wiped out by a freak pathogen last year, in an event scientists are blaming on rapid temperature fluctuations caused by climate change. Over 200,000 of the saiga, a small antelope native to central Asia, died over the course of two weeks in Kazakhstan's Betpak-Dala region in May, pushing the critically endangered species to the brink of extinction. In the run-up to this year's breeding season,...
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The Climate Change Solution to Disasters
2016-05-25 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: This year is already on track to be the hottest on record, beating out 2015 for this unfortunate distinction. Every year, if it's not the mercury rising it's the tangible impacts of climate change. More and more people are living in harm's way. Some of the most powerful hurricanes and cyclones ever recorded have made landfall in recent years, powered by rising and warming seas. Age-old sources of drinking water are dwindling away because of erratic rainfall patterns. Glacial melt and aquifer depletion...
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