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Study finds heavy upwind air pollution contributed to the catastrophic 2013 Sichuan Flood
2015-07-10 13:55:36| Green Car Congress
Humans causing catastrophic ecosystem shifts, study finds
2015-07-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Never before has a single species become the top predator on land and sea, and human dominance over the natural environment has caused shifts in world ecosystems unprecedented in the last 500 million years, researchers said on Tuesday. Human activity is leading to an international decline in the variety of plants and animals through extinction, as organisms not useful to human needs are killed off by ecosystem changes or over-exploitation, according to a new study. The biggest immediate losers...
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Preventing 'catastrophic' climate change boost health worldwide, experts say
2015-06-23 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: World leaders must act now to prevent a rise in global temperatures which could be catastrophic for human health, and undermine all of the medical advances made in the last half century, experts have warned. In a stark report on climate change, experts said that the world is headed for a 4C rise in global temperatures, which would spark a rise in extreme weather events and infectious diseases such as malaria. The document advised politicians to invest in avoiding anything above a 2C rise...
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Unnatural Disaster: How Warming Helped Cause India Catastrophic Flood
2015-06-23 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Two years ago this month, a flood devastated the Himalayan village of Kedarnath, India, the destination of half a million Hindu pilgrims annually. The town sits 11,500 feet up in a tight valley. Sharp, snowy peaks tower on three sides and a stone temple sits at one end. The flood which occurred on June 17, 2013 was Indias worst disaster in a decade. Several thousand people drowned. The deluge tore apart dozens of bridges, swept away miles of paved roads, and carried off herds of livestock. ...
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China Can Stop Catastrophic Climate Change. But Will It?
2015-06-09 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: A new study confirms what has been increasingly clear to outside observers: Whether or not the world will avert catastrophic climate change is now, to a large extent, in the hands of the Chinese. The new London School of Economics (LSE) study, written by analyst Fergus Green and famed climate economist Nicholas Stern, matches what Climate Progress has been hearing and reporting for a while now: Chinas coal use appears to have peaked. And that means Chinas CO2 will likely peak by 2025 five years...
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