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Ahead of climate summit, French use emergency laws to put activists under house arrest
2015-11-28 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: France has put 24 green activists under house arrest ahead of the United Nations climate talks, using emergency laws put in place following the Paris shootings, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Saturday. Cazeneuve said the activists were suspected of planning violent protests at the talks which kick off on Sunday, a day ahead of the opening ceremony, and run until Dec. 11. The conference, also dubbed COP21, is seeking to agree a deal that signals a break with a rising reliance on...
The Emergency Climate Movement
2015-09-26 17:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: We are living in a state of planetary emergency. To have a chance of averting the collapse of civilization and the destruction of the natural world, we must mobilize our society on the scale of World War II to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions [1] at wartime speed. The fact that we have already heated the world to such dangerous levels and show little sign of stopping, is evidence of widespread institutional failure. We cannot expect anyone else to save us. We must organize to save ourselves....
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Climate change health risk is a medical emergency, experts warn
2015-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine the last 50 years of gains in development and global health, experts warned on Tuesday. Extreme weather events such as floods and heat waves bring rising risks of infectious diseases, poor nutrition and stress, the specialists said, while polluted cities where people work long hours and have no time or space to walk, cycle or relax are bad for the heart as well as respiratory and mental health. Almost 200 countries...
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Climate change a medical emergency, says study
2015-06-23 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The threat climate change poses to human health is so great it should be considered a medical emergency and has the potential to undermine the last fifty years of gains in development and global health, according to a UCL-led Commission. The research, which has been published in the Lancet, argues that the potentially catastrophic risk to human health rising temperatures presents has previously been underestimated. It adds that while the technologies and finance to tackle the issue can be...
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Climate Change Bigger Health Emergency Than Ebola
2014-10-02 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Ebola may be more dramatic, but climate change is a bigger threat to public health. That`s the conclusion of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, publishing since 1840. This week it ran an editorial calling on the UN`s World Health Organization (WHO) to declare climate change a public health emergency. "Deaths from Ebola infection, tragic and frightening though they are, will pale into insignificance when compared with the mayhem we can expect for our children...
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