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The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare
2016-06-07 01:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The stench of death It was the smell that really got to diver Richard Vevers. The smell of death on the reef. I cant even tell you how bad I smelt after the dive the smell of millions of rotting animals. Vevers is a former advertising executive and is now the chief executive of the Ocean Agency, a not-for-profit company he founded to raise awareness of environmental problems. After diving for 30 years in his spare time, he was compelled to combine his work and hobby when he was struck...
Pakistan stepping up efforts to prevent climate catastrophe
2016-04-25 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
aaj.tv: Pakistan is strengthening its institutional structures to step up action to stave off the most drastic effects of climate change, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told the international community on Saturday. Speaking after the signing of the Paris climate agreement at the UN General Assembly, he said Pakistan, a country profoundly vulnerable to global warming, would establish a climate change council and climate change authority, adding that more than 5% of its annual budget was allocated...
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201 Years Ago, This Volcano Caused a Climate Catastrophe
2016-04-09 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: 201 Years Ago, This Volcano Caused a Climate Catastrophe Indonesia's Tambora eruption brought on a deadly spate of cooling-presaging the costs that come with sudden changes to climate. On April 10, 1815, Indonesia's island of Sumbawa became ground zero for the worst volcanic eruption in modern times-and a chilling example of a widespread climate catastrophe. The Tambora event was the largest volcanic eruption in the last millennium. On the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Explosivity...
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Bin Laden urged Obama to tackle climate catastrophe
2016-03-02 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Osama bin Laden said America was better off waging a war on climate change than on Islam, according to documents made public on Tuesday. The letter was included in materials seized in a US raid on his secret compound in Pakistan in May 2011, attributed to the Al Qaeda mastermind by intelligence officials. the world should put its efforts into attempting to reduce the release of gases, read the undated, unsigned letter to an aide, Reuters reported. This is a struggle between two of the...
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Has the climate change deal really averted catastrophe?
2015-12-20 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: After years of fruitless negotiations, world leaders finally reached an agreement to combat climate change, agreeing to cap greenhouse gases in an effort to slow down global warming. It was very interesting to see this mirror between what politicians were saying and what the media were saying. They all echoed a very similar narrative - they were using very, very similar terms, language, frames. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, or COP21, set a target of limiting carbon...
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