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India Holds Up Farmers Plight from Extreme Weather for COP21 Delegates
2015-12-02 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "If you look at the submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs, the national commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030) by over 150 countries, most have announced mitigation-centric targets, whereas climate change is also about adaptation. India is among the few that has given a comprehensive INDC," Ashok Lavasa, a key official of India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and part of its COP21 team at Paris, told IPS. A new report by Delhi-based non-profit...
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African Countries Feeling Exposed Extreme Weather Changes
2015-11-28 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Extreme weather conditions, an impact of climate change faced by African countries despite contributing the least global emissions, is attracting the attention of many as the clock ticks towards the start of the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21). Severe weather events are causing significant loss of life and livelihoods among communities in Africa. The situation is a major challenge to African governments given that the probability of occurrence of events is continuously...
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Extreme weather, wet or dry, increases blackleg disease risk
2015-11-16 19:22:00| Beef
Risk of clostridial diseases can jump during and after unusual weather. read more
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Human-caused climate change made extreme weather worse in 2014
2015-11-08 01:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forex Report: Data in all three countries suggests that Catholics are backing Pope Francis`s Encyclical released in June, titled Laudato Si, which argues that "climate change is a global problem with grave implications". "Greenland Is Melting Away": a video and essay of scientists` studying the Greenland ice sheet, from the New York Times this week. Lee also identified the "power of the purse" as another constitutional power Congress should use to make sure President Obama does not commit the United States...
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14 Extreme Weather Events Linked to Climate Change
2015-11-07 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Even though skeptics would disagree, weather and climate are clearly two different things. We know that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and land use cause global temperatures to rise over long stretches of time, but what effect does that have on the weather today? Well, according to a new study, we can now pin at least 14 extreme weather events in 2014including heatwaves, drought, wildfires and floodson climate change. The report, Explaining Extreme...
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