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See How Climate Change Could Drown Cities Around World
2015-12-01 01:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: This week, 150 nations have gathered together in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties to discuss combating climate change. But the global leaders aren`t the only ones voicing concern. The research group Climate Central released images of an artist`s impression of climate change`s possible effect on cities across the globe. Before and after pictures predict that cities such as Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro could be heavily immersed in water if the world was four degrees warmer. Watch the...
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Obama urges world action on climate change: No nation 'immune' to global warming
2015-11-30 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama joined leaders from 150 nations on Monday in pledging action against climate change, kicking off a historic two-week gathering that Obama called a turning point in the battle against one of humanitys gravest threats. Heads of state from industrial powers and tiny island nations assembled in a heavily guarded conference center north of Paris, where negotiators hope to forge a treaty to dramatically reduce emissions of greenhouse-gas pollution blamed for warming the planet. Obama,...
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Pope Francis: World is near 'suicide' on climate change; 'it's now or never'
2015-11-30 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Environmental negotiators meeting in Paris should strike a climate change deal to save a world "at the limits of suicide," Pope Francis said on Monday. "I am not sure, but I can say to you 'now or never'," he told a group of reporters aboard the papal plane, en route home from Africa, according to Reuters. "Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I would say that we are at the limits of suicide." The comments come at the start of a United...
EPAs Proposed Rules Update the Federal Hazardous Waste Generator Program to Provide Real World Flexibility and Efficiencies
2015-11-30 20:46:00| Waste Age
Environmental Leader The proposed rules demonstrate that the EPA continues to listen and learn from the regulated community regarding what works and what could work better. read more
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China Chokes on Smog as World Leaders Talk Climate Change
2015-11-30 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: As Chinese President Xi Jinping joined world leaders for the U.N. climate change summit, millions in his homeland were choking on the most severe air pollution of the year. The air-quality index soared past 700 -- well above the hazardous level -- in Baoding on Monday. Located about 90 miles south of Beijing, Baoding's 11 million residents struggled to see through the thick haze of smog. Poor conditions were also reported in other parts of northern China, including the capital. "Most days...
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