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Global issues dont live in separate boxes. Why no mention in Paris of refugees?
2015-12-13 05:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: While the United Nations climate change talks in Paris struggled to elicit credible commitments, notably missing from the debate was environmental displacement people fleeing their homes on account of natural disaster. As temperatures and sea levels rise, and land-use patterns change, there will be significant consequences for human mobility within and across borders. However, public and media debate scarcely discussed the issue, and the only references in the Paris summits negotiated outcome...
Canada on track to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees by year-end, McCallum says
2015-12-12 14:37:25| Railroads - Topix.net
Immigration Minister John McCallum says Canada is still on track to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year. McCallum and Health Minister Jane Philpott were at the Ottawa train station as Canadian National Railway Co.
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Virginia Islanders US First Climate Change Refugees
2015-12-11 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: For Tangier Island, Va., lifelong resident Claudia Parks, climate change is a direct threat to her golf cart. As flooding and erosion have worsened on the Chesapeake Bay island in recent decades, the tour director with a broad smile avoids certain saturated roads at least 15 times in the spring and fall during tidal events on her regular work route. That involves getting visitors past the local ice cream shops, white picket fences and marshy hills that dot this car-free fishing community. When...
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How Many Climate Change Refugees Should America Let In?
2015-11-27 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The United Nations estimates that climate change will create 200 million migrants and refugees throughout the world. How many climate change refugees should America let in? A vote in the U.S. House of Representatives last week created a firestorm of controversy about how many refugees from Syria should be allowed in the U.S. The House vote, which would further restrict Syrians from entering America, received support from nearly all the Republicans and 47 Democrats, including my Colorado Democratic...
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Texas Governor Picks Fight With Faith Groups Over Syrian Refugees
2015-11-25 19:42:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Faith groups in Texas are pushing back against a request from their governor to stop helping Syrian refugees settle in their state, saying the lawmaker's actions are unChristian and possibly illegal. On November 16, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joined a slate of other state governors by asking the federal government to stop settling Syrian refugees in the Lone Star State, which is currently home to one the largest communities of Syrian refugees in the country.
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