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Kiribati climate refugees fighting to stay in New Zealand
2013-10-02 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A Kiribati couple and their children have left their island home for New Zealand, seeking refuge from rising seas - and the fate of their immigration case could shape the future for thousands of other climate refugees. We told you last year that the 100,000 people who live on the low-lying Pacific Ocean archipelago are desperately seeking new homes, with waves already submerging some of its 32 carol atolls. Now, attention has turned to the case of a 37-year-old and his wife and kids who are seeking...
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'Climate refugee' fighting to stay in New Zealand
2013-10-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A man from one of the lowest-lying nations on Earth is trying to convince New Zealand judges that he's a refugee suffering not from persecution, but from climate change. The 37-year-old and his wife left his remote atoll in the Pacific nation of Kiribati six years ago for higher ground and better prospects in New Zealand, where their three children were born. Immigration authorities have twice rejected his argument that rising sea levels make it too dangerous for him and his family to return...
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Chiquita fighting suit over Colombian killings
2013-09-26 09:46:25| Agriculture - Topix.net
Human rights protesters outside the Chiquita headquarters in the NASCAR Plaza at Stonewall and Caldwell Streets during Chiquita's annual meeting in May. More than a year after Chiquita Brands International moved to Charlotte, a lawsuit accusing the banana company of financing the killing of thousands of Colombians through its payments to guerrilla ... (more)
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Gen Y Women Begin Fighting the Signs of Aging Skin
2013-09-24 17:37:11| Happi Breaking News
New NPD findings show that select SKUs are key in routines.
Fighting Climate Change Also Battles Disease
2013-09-22 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Chances are you wont die from carbon dioxide. But cutting down on the greenhouse gas pollution responsible for climate change could extend your life and make it better. That's because less reliance on things that produce a lot of CO2, like coal-fired power plants, also means lower levels of other kinds of pollution that shorten lives. That's according to new research in the journal Nature Climate Change. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) Researchers looked at how CO2 reductions...
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