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India court slams Delhi's worsening air pollution
2014-11-27 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Indias environment court has slammed the government over the capitals horrendous air pollution, which it said was getting worse every day, and ordered a string of measures to bring it down. The National Green Tribunal directed all vehicles older than 15 years be taken off New Delhi roads, pollution checks undertaken for all state-run buses and air purifiers installed at the citys busy markets. Environmentalists welcomed the decision, saying policymakers were failing to heed the emergency...
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Study: Global warming worsening watery dead zones
2014-11-10 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Global warming is likely playing a bigger role than previously thought in dead zones in oceans, lakes and rivers around the world and it's only going to get worse, according to a new study. Dead zones occur when fertilizer runoff clogs waterways with nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous. That leads to an explosion of microbes that consumes oxygen and leaves the water depleted of oxygen, harming marine life. Scientists have long known that warmer water increases this problem, but a new...
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Worsening ocean acidification threatens humans and marine life, UK scientists warn
2014-10-09 10:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Rising carbon dioxide emissions are altering the pH levels of the ocean, with dramatic consequences for the marine environment and the people who depend on it, a group of British scientists has said. Experts from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have warned, in a new report published by the UNs Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), that the current rate of ocean acidification is a grave threat to both humans and natural ecosystems. Acidification is already underway, scientists found,...
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Science group says climate change worsening, dangerous
2014-08-26 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Human influence on the planet's climate is clear and having "widespread and consequential impacts on human and natural systems," some of which may be irreversible, says a draft report out today from a United Nations science panel. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia," the report says. "The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen."...
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The meat you eat is worsening climate change
2014-08-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MainStreet: There's a huge contributor to climate change that gets ignored when talking about our warming world -- and it isn't coal or cars . Rather, it's what we most of us eat on a daily or near daily basis -- namely, meat and milk . Read More: Carbon Tax Gains Steam to Fight Global Warming In 2006, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations released a lengthy report entitled "Livestock's Long Shadow." Among the array of environmental problems the livestock industry is accused of contributing...