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David Suzuki: Food Waste Is a Crime Against the Planet
2015-10-08 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Thanksgiving is a time to gather with friends and family to appreciate the bounty of the fall harvest. Eating is both a highly social and personal part of our lives and food preferences can even make for lively dinner table conversations. In North America we tend to focus on how food is grown and harvested. Consumers face a myriad of labels when they shop for Thanksgiving feasts--organic, free range, cage-free, Marine Stewardship Council, fair trade, non-GMO, vegetarian-fed and locally grown among...
Pope Francis Forcefully Urges America to Save the Planet
2015-09-23 17:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: President Obama welcomed Pope Francis to the White House Wednesday morning to loud cheers from thousands gathered to greet the leader of the Catholic churchin a city that has virtually shut down for the historic event. The ceremony marks the first time that Pope Francis has visited the United States and kicks off a much anticipated three-city tour that includes Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. During his first address in the United States, Francis pulled no punches when talking...
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Interview: A Scientists View On How to Repair the Planet
2015-09-23 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Enviro 360: For a researcher who studies how humanity is pushing the earth close to potentially disastrous tipping points, Johan Rockström is surprisingly optimistic. Although he reckons that our species has crossed four of nine planetary boundaries -- including those on climate change and deforestation -- he believes there is still time to pull back from the brink and create a sustainable future based on renewable energy and a circular economy that continually reuses resources. In an interview with Yale...
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Planet Beauty Comes into View
2015-09-16 07:00:00| Happi Breaking News
Upscale beauty product retailer continues to expand.
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
2015-09-11 15:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: One of the most under-appreciated aspects of the climate change problem is the so-called "fat tail" of risk. In short, the likelihood of very large impacts is greater than we would expect under typical statistical assumptions. We are used to thinking about likelihoods and probabilities in terms of the familiar "normal" distribution--otherwise known as the "bell curve." It looks like this: Roughly 68 percent of the area falls within the region bounded by 1 standard deviation below (-1 sigma)...
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