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Climate change fuels wildfires around the world
2013-01-14 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Every year, large areas of the Earth's surface burn, and the number of fires is increasing. Is climate change fanning the flames? Or are the fires making climate change worse? The climate is complex. It is so complex that it's difficult for researchers to give accurate climate forecasts because it is so heavily influenced by external factors solar radiation, greenhouse gasses and oceans. Another factor, which has been largely ignored until now, is fire. Only recently have experts realized that...
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Weekly Overview: New Year's Resolution: Feeding the World
2013-01-14 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - 2013 started with the publication of a new report on the huge amount of food wasted each year between 'field and mouth'. Reducing the amount by just a small percentage could make a big difference to the growing human population, as could further development of biotechnology. These are huge challenges that we will all have to face, sooner or later. And sooner or later, we must accept our share of the responsibility for feeding present and future generations.
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Now no one can deny that the world is getting warmer
2013-01-13 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: The draft version of the US National Climate Assessment, released on Friday, makes remarkable reading not just for Americans but for all humanity. Put together by a special panel of more than 240 scientists, the federally commissioned report reveals that the US is already reeling under the impact of global warming. Heatwaves, droughts, floods, intense downpours, rising sea levels and melting glaciers are now causing widespread havoc and are having an impact on a wide range of fronts including health...
Will the Mercury Treaty Negotiations Reduce Mercury Poisoning Around the World?
2013-01-12 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Delegates arrived at the Geneva International Conference Center this morning for regional meetings before tomorrows start of the mercury treaty negotiations. Most of these regional meetings were closed. Of those that were open, the news is that European Union, Central Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific support the name of "Minamata Treaty." But will they ensure that the treaty will be sufficient to prevent mercury poisoning from occurring around the world? At a lunchtime panel, world-renowned Professor...
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The greenest office building in the world is about to open in Seattle
2013-01-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: Seattles Bullitt Center is being heralded as the greenest, most energy-efficient commercial office building in the world. Its not that the six-story, 50,000-square-foot building is utilizing never-before-seen technology. But its combining a lot of different existing technologies and methods to create a structure thats a showpiece for green design--and a model for others to follow. A project of the Bullitt Foundation, a Seattle-based sustainability advocacy group, the Bullitt Center has an...
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