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Marshall Islands: A Clarion Call From the Climate Change Frontline
2014-09-18 19:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, climate change has arrived. In the last year alone, my country has suffered through unprecedented droughts in the north, and the biggest ever king tides in the south; and we have watched the most devastating typhoons in history leave a trail of death and destruction across the region. Lying just two meters above sea level, my atoll nation stands at the frontline in the battle against climate change. The beaches of Buoj where I use to fish as a boy are...
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Jobless young people desert sinking Pacific islands
2014-09-03 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: TO SOME, it will smack of deserting a sinking ship. Young people are leaving their island homes in the Pacific and Caribbean in search of jobs and higher education. Without youthful citizens, small islands will struggle to cope with the effects of rising sea levels. So says a report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). "The lack of opportunity pushes the best and brightest to look elsewhere," says the report. The exodus from islands including Samoa, Granada, Antigua and Dominica accounts for...
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First Continuous Air Quality Monitoring Stations For Faroe Islands
2014-08-25 10:06:41| pollutiononline Home Page
The Environment Agency of the Faroe Islands together with the municipality of Tórshavn has installed two ambient air quality monitoring stations as part of its commitment to monitor the environment and provide air quality data to the public and other interested parties
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"Heat Islands" Cook U.S. Cities Faster Than Ever
2014-08-22 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Cities are almost always hotter than the surrounding rural area but global warming takes that heat and makes it worse. In the future, this combination of urbanization and climate change could raise urban temperatures to levels that threaten human health, strain energy resources, and compromise economic productivity. Summers in the U.S. have been warming since 1970. But on average across the country cities are even hotter, and have been getting hotter faster than adjacent rural areas. With more...
Which U.S. cities have the worst urban heat islands?
2014-08-21 13:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Denver lead the list of U.S. cities with the most intense urban heat islands, according to a report released this week by research organization Climate Central, which is based in Princeton, N.J. "Urban heat islands have hotter days, far hotter nights, and more extremely hot days each summer than adjacent rural areas," said Alyson Kenward, lead author of the report and senior scientist with Climate Central. The concrete, asphalt and shingled roofs of buildings, roads...
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