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Climate Challenge Fact Sheet
2019-09-17 01:55:30| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 627kbCategory: Portland's Climate Challenge
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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals
2017-08-22 11:56:26| Green Car Congress
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Groups challenge federal oil, gas leasing on climate grounds
2016-08-25 16:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The federal government needs to consider greenhouse emissions and the potential contribution to climate change before allowing oil and gas development on public land, two environmental groups asserted Thursday in a lawsuit over drilling in Western states. Industry advocates stood by their own efforts to keep federal leasing moving ahead. The lawsuit filed by WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenges 397 oil and gas leases the...
1200 years of water balance data challenge climate models
2016-04-07 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Water availability in the Northern Hemisphere has seen much larger changes during the past twelve centuries than during twentieth century global warming, a new study in Nature reports. The team with participation of the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL concludes that climate models overestimate wet and dry extremes as temperatures increased during the twentieth century. The new results can help to improve the ability of climate models to predict future hydroclimate changes. The researchers from...
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Challenge of Climate Change: an Indian perspective
2015-11-19 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Few countries in the world are as vulnerable to the effects of climate change as India is with its vast population (of over 1.2 billion) that is dependent on the growth of its agrarian economy, its expansive coastal areas and the Himalayan region and islands. In 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) database, revealed that thirteen of top 20 dirtiest cities were Indian. Delhi topped the list followed by Patna, Gwalior and Raipur. Realizing the problem,...
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