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Cove director's new doc warns of impending ecological catastrophe
2015-12-02 12:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In early 2014, a story made headlines around the world. At a factory in Wenxhou, southeast China owned by a Mr Li, whale sharks were being slaughtered in their hundreds, their various constituent parts distributed for food, medicine and cosmetics not just in China, but in the west too. Footage of an undercover sting in the factory is among the most viscerally shocking sequences in Racing Extinction, which airs tonight on the Discovery Channel in the UK. The new documentary by Louis Psihoyos, director...
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Protesters push leaders to avert climate catastrophe
2015-11-28 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Masses of people joined a worldwide wave of marches on Saturday demanding leaders craft a pact to avert a climate catastrophe when they gather in a still-shaken Paris. From Australia to New Zealand, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Japan, people rallied at the start of a weekend of popular protests urging world powers to seal a deal at the UN climate summit that officially opens in the French capital Monday. "Protect our common home," declared placards held aloft as thousands gathered in Melbourne,...
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Rallying cry in Paris to avoid environmental catastrophe
2015-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Among the thousands of delegates heading to Paris to finalise a new global climate change accord, there will be hundreds of business executives from almost every type of industry. There is a simple reason. In theory, the outcome of the two-week UN talks in Paris that start on November 30 could affect the way companies fuel cars, heat buildings, power factories and make steel and cement. That is because the main objective of the talks is an agreement among the worlds governments to collectively...
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South Sudan food team finds risk 'widespread catastrophe'
2015-11-26 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tens of thousands of people surviving on water lilies and swamp fish after fleeing South Sudan's war may run out of food entirely when the dry season starts in January, food security experts said in a report seen by Reuters on Thursday. The team predicted that, without help, there was a high chance of a "widespread catastrophe" in the first three months of next year. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) team said after a trip to South Sudan's Unity State that said 40,000...
Pope Urges Deal on Climate Change in Paris to Avoid Catastrophe
2015-11-26 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Pope Francis urged world leaders preparing to meet at a United Nations conference on climate change to agree an accord that transforms current development models and focuses on the need to adopt low-carbon energy systems. Negotiators meeting in Paris next week have a political and economic obligation to rethink and correct the dysfunctions and distortions of the current development model, the pontiff said in a speech at the UN Environment Programme headquarters in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi....
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