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The plight of a US dairy farm
2019-08-15 23:59:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
It's a family business which has been around since 1942 - but now the last remaining cows are being sold off.
India Holds Up Farmers Plight from Extreme Weather for COP21 Delegates
2015-12-02 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "If you look at the submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs, the national commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030) by over 150 countries, most have announced mitigation-centric targets, whereas climate change is also about adaptation. India is among the few that has given a comprehensive INDC," Ashok Lavasa, a key official of India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and part of its COP21 team at Paris, told IPS. A new report by Delhi-based non-profit...
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Sharks plight highlights climate threats
2015-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Global warming will be bad news for sharks - they will be hungrier, but they may not be able to scent their prey. And climate change already keeps polar bears ashore for an extra 30 days a year, away from their preferred supper. But Adélie penguins, whose numbers have increased 135-fold in the last 14,000 years as the Antarctic glaciers have retreated, may feel the benefit of a warmer world. And as Arctic temperatures rise and shrubs and plants colonise Alaskas North Slope, the moose and snowshoe...
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Forgotten plight Australia Torres Strait islanders: land is being swallowed by rising sea
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The islands which dot the sparkling waters of the Torres Strait, off the far north-east of Australia, were the birthplace of indigenous land rights. In 1992, five islanders led by Eddie Mabo won a landmark High Court case which erased the notion that Australia was unoccupied when the British arrived. But more than two decades on, the land for which they fought is being swallowed by the sea. The low-lying islands some of them closer to Papua New Guinea than the Australian mainland are at risk...
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Two New Studies Address the Ongoing Plight of Honeybees
2014-05-12 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Once again, new reports have surfaced providing more evidence that the destructive use of pesticides in large-scale agriculture must be stopped in order to protect the plummeting global bee population due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). The first study, from Harvard School of Public Health, found that two widely used neonicotinoids appear to significantly harm honeybee colonies over the winter, particularly colder winters. The study--which replicated a 2012 study from the same research group,...
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