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CO2 fertilization greening the earth
2016-04-25 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] BOSTON — An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries has just published a study titled “Greening of the Earth and its Drivers” in the journal Nature Climate Change showing significant greening of a quarter to one-half of the Earth's vegetated lands using data from the NASA-MODIS and NOAA-AVHRR satellite sensors of the past 33 years. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees. Green leaves produce sugars usi…
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Speakers use Earth Day for climate change focus
2016-04-23 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Argus: While 175 countries signed an agreement on climate change on Friday, the president of the Sierra Club called the agreement a cop-out. The fawning and applause over a signing of an agreement, its not ... Aaron Mair, president of the Sierra Club, said Friday at an appearance at the Vermont Law School in honor of Earth Day, Its just not enough and the need to build a movement and the need to shock America into action is dire, he said. Mair said his biggest objection to the agreement, sometimes...
175 nations sign historic Paris climate deal on Earth Day
2016-04-23 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KTHV: World leaders from 175 countries signed the historic Paris climate accord Friday, using Earth Day as a backdrop for the ceremonial inking of a long-fought deal that aims to slow the rise of harmful greenhouse gases. "We are in a race against time." U.N. secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the gathering at the United Nations headquarters in New York. "The era of consumption without consequences is over." "The poor and most vulnerable must not suffer further from a problem they did not create," Ban...
From BPS Director Susan Anderson: Happy Earth Day! It's time to celebrate -- Portland leads nation on climate action!
2016-04-23 01:05:22| PortlandOnline
A 21 percent drop in Portland carbon emissions is cause for celebration.
For Earth Day, Report Has News Ease Meat-Lover's Conscience
2016-04-23 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The World Resources Institute has news to ease a meat-lover's conscience: In a new report, it says you don't have to bid burgers bye-bye in order to reduce the environmental footprint of what you eat. Cutting back could go a long way, it says. In the report, the nonprofit calculates the planetary effect of various possible changes in how the world eats. According to the WRI, the planetary impact of Americans' meat and dairy habit accounts for nearly 90 percent of all the land used to feed us -...
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