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Chilling: Arctic explorer Yamazaki sees climate change impact up close
2013-04-17 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: Spending six months of every year in the Arctic, adventurer Tetsuhide Yamazaki sees the impact of global warming firsthand through the region`s thinning sea ice, the expanse of which has roughly halved in the last three decades. The ice is "very thin this year," Yamazaki, 45, said after confirming a thickness of 118 cm with a drill during his recent exploration of an area at the North Pole. Sea ice in the area is usually almost 2 meters thick, according to Yamazaki, who senses the ice grows thinner...
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Cooking the Books: State Department Ignores True Climate Impact of Keystone XL Pipeline
2013-04-16 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new report out today from environmental groups--Oil Change International, Natural Resources Defense Council, 350.org, Environment America, National Wildlife Federation, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Greenpeace--shows that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would, if approved, be responsible for at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars or 51 coal-fired power plants. In documenting...
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Governors Ask Obama to Weigh Climate Impact of Coal Ports
2013-03-26 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obamas administration should weigh the climate-change impact of burning coal in Asia when considering whether to approve Pacific coal- export terminals, two Western governors said. In a letter to the White House Council of Environmental Quality, the Democratic governors, John Kitzhaber of Oregon and and Jay Inslee of Washington, said the administration must expand its review of the projects and consider the carbon dioxide that would be released when the coal is burned for power....
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Bangladesh: Impact of climate change on women's reproductive health
2013-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Express: Apocalyptic natural forces like disasters, diseases, drought, famine, flood threatened lives of millions, specially of women who suffered severely as an impact of climate change. Although findings of many studies have made it crystal clear that the climate change may affect people's health negatively, but the relationship between climate change and reproductive health is not yet very clear. While evidences showed the association between these two, scientists are yet to figure out the exact process...
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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts
2013-03-02 14:30:20| Green Car Congress
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