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IPCC Warns Of Greater Risk To Food & Water Security
2014-04-11 00:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDev.Net: The climate change-related risks from extreme events such as floods and heat waves will rise further with global warming, according to the second installment of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. This will aggravate food and water insecurity, especially for some of the poorest communities. The report of the second working group of the IPCCs Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), dealing with impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, and offering new insights into key risks...
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IPCC report says climate change is bad news for crops
2014-04-10 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: When it comes to projections of future global warming, most people are more interested in concrete impacts than abstract figures like average global temperature. That sort of information is contained in the second section of the latest IPCC report, which was just recently released. Among the things potentially impacted by climate change, the agricultural sector is of obvious relevance to those of us who eat food. (That includes you, Soylent fans.) Given that population growth and economic progress...
IPCC report: Climate change threatens Chile
2014-04-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Santiago Times: Environmental experts, international report says small-scale farmers biggest losers in increasingly arid future which places biodiversity at risk. Both Chiles smallholder farmers and endemic species face major challenges over coming decades due to changing global weather patterns, which are likely to place increasing pressure on the countrys already stressed fresh water resources. These are the key takeaways from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report...
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Draft IPCC Report Suggests 15-Year Window for Affordable Climate Action
2014-04-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Government envoys and scientists gathered under the UN banner in Berlin Monday to hammer out a list of options for curbing carbon emissions driving dangerous climate change. Fresh from issuing its starkest-ever warning about the impacts of global warming on Earth's weather system, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will meet until Friday to vet the choices meant to inform policymakers. A draft of the document, seen by AFP, suggests there is a 15-year window for affordable...
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Arctic Indigenous Knowledge Gains Strength in Latest IPCC Climate Report
2014-04-03 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Pulling back the curtains to my window this morning, overlooking the small arctic town of Kautokeino in northern Norway, the landscape looks charmingly picturesque. Colorful wooden houses are tucked under a thick layer of snow, a white tundra plateau extends off into the horizon. Daylight, now making an appearance in this part of the world for more than 15 hours of the day, already broke several hours ago. The sky sheds the last strands of dawn`s orange and purple hues. But this year was a bad...
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