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E.P.A. Faulted for Failure to Report Risks
2014-04-03 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency failed to consistently disclose health risks, including possible cancer risks, to research study participants who were exposed to dangerous pollutants, an agency watchdog report has found. An E.P.A. inspector generals report released Wednesday said that when the agency exposed 81 people to soot and diesel exhaust emissions in studies in 2010 and 2011, the risks were not always consistently represented and did not include information on cancer risks associated...
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Changing climate creates pervasive risks, but opportunities exist for effective responses
2014-03-31 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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U.N. climate panel: Governments, businesses need to take action now against growing risks
2014-03-31 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The world's leading environmental scientists told policymakers and business leaders Sunday that they must invest more to cope with climate change's immediate effects and hedge against its most dire potential, even as they work to slow the emissions fueling global warming. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that climate change is already hurting the poor, wreaking havoc on the infrastructure of coastal cities, lowering crop yields, endangering various plant and animal species,...
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New IPCC report on climate change focuses on managing risks
2014-03-31 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: A few months ago, we covered the release of the first section of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which dealt with the physical science of climate and climate change. After one last meeting in Yokohama, Japan, the authors of the section on climate Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability have released the final draft of their work. (One additional section will be released in just a couple of weeks, with a synthesis report and the full, official release due at the end...
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Food and Water Shortages May Prove Major Risks of Climate Change
2014-03-31 06:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: The rich play with fire and the poor get burned. That sums up a report issued March 31 by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about the worsening risks of climate change. Yet even rich nations will face serious challenges. "Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by climate change," said IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri at a press conference releasing the report in Yokohama, Japan. According to Pachauri and the hundreds of scientists who prepared the report, climate change...
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