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State Officials Warn Climate Impact Predictions may be Worsening
2014-01-12 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: The situation looks grim for Rhode Island and the rest of the East Coast when it come to climate change. In fact, the outlook is getting worse, according to state officials. Grover Fugate, head of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) and the face of the state's climate research and planning, recently said climate change is happening faster than scientists can model it. At a Jan. 8 Statehouse conference, proponents of addressing climate change in Rhode Island divulged some...
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Scientists to study climate change impact in Sunderbans
2014-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: Researchers from India, Britain and Bangladesh are studying the impact of climate change on livelihoods of those living in Sunderbans mangroves, the world's largest mangrove forests. More than two-thirds of the forest lies in Bangladesh, the focus of the study, and the rest in West Bengal. Under the ongoing Ecosystem Services For Poverty Alleviation (Deltas) project, as many as 50 experts from the three countries are investigating the impact of climate change on ecosystem services (benefits derived...
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China says poorly prepared fight impact climate change
2013-12-09 08:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China is poorly prepared to tackle the impact of climate change that presents a serious threat to the country, thanks to a lack of planning and public awareness, the government said on Monday. The world's most populous country already faces challenges from weather extremes, with 2,000 people dying on average each year since the 1990s in natural disasters that are set to get worse, China's powerful economic planning agency said. "Our country is a developing nation with a large population, complex...
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Typhoon Haiyans Impact Felt at United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw
2013-11-22 10:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: It is with a heavy heart I have gone about my business at the climate negotiations in Warsaw each day knowing that about 12 million people are affected by the recent devastating Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda. Historic in its scope, meteorologists, including experts from NASA, concluded that it is the most destructive and powerful tropical cyclone to ever make landfall (it made a total of 6 landfalls). It is hard to imagine that such an intense storm (stronger than Katrina or Sandy) would...
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How climate change will impact the Southeast USA
2013-11-13 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Rising sea levels, warming temperatures, heat waves, worsening air quality and stresses on the water supply are issues the Southeast will face over the next 20 years because of man-made climate change, according to a report released Tuesday. "The Southeast is a key part of the problem," said Keith Ingram, director of the Southeast Climate Consortium and a professor at the University of Florida. "With 26% of the total population of the U.S. living there, the region emits 25% of the country's total...
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