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CDC Warns Zika Is 'Scarier Than We Initially Thought', Deadly Virus Attacks Central Nervous Systems
2016-04-12 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: In a press conference, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that the Zika virus seems to be scarier than what they initially thought. This is after a Brazilian team of scientists discovered that it is possible for the Zika virus to trigger an immune attack on the central nervous system of adults. The mosquito-borne Zika virus outbreak happened in May 2015 in Brazil and Colombia. It quickly spread to more than 13 countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)....
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Earth could become hotter than thought, study warns
2016-04-09 03:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Global warming could make the planet far hotter than currently projected because today's scientific models do not correctly account for the influence of clouds, researchers said this week. The study in the journal Science was led by researchers at Yale University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. When climate scientists look ahead to how much the planet's surface temperature may warm up in response to a doubling of carbon dioxide -- a byproduct of fossil fuel burning -- they typically...
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Barrier Reef coral bleaching labelled 'major and significant' as Attenborough warns of 'grave danger'
2016-04-07 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef is "major and significant", federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt says. Mr Hunt was commenting after he received his latest briefing from the Reef 2050 Independent Expert Panel about the current bleaching. The Minister's latest remarks come as prominent naturalist Sir David Attenborough declared the reef to be in "grave danger". "The event is still unfolding and the full extent and severity of bleaching may take several weeks to manifest," Mr Hunt...
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Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns
2016-04-04 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change poses a serious danger to public health worse than polio in some respects and will strike especially hard at pregnant women, children, low-income people and communities of color, an authoritative US government report warned on Monday. The report, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, formally unveiled at the White House, warned of sweeping risks to public health from rising temperatures in the coming decades with increased...
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$1tn could be wasted on 'unneeded' new coal plants, report warns
2016-03-30 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Almost $1tn of investment in new coal-fired power stations could be wasted if growing concerns about climate change and air pollution leave the plants unused, according to a new report. About 1,500 new coal plants are in construction or planning stages around the world but electricity generation from the fossil fuel has fallen in recent years, the detailed report from the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and CoalSwarm found. In China, existing plants are now used just 50% of the time, coal use is falling...
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