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Report on climate change depicts a planet in peril
2013-11-11 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Climate change will disrupt not only the natural world but also society, posing risks to the world's economy and the food and water supply and contributing to violent conflict, an international panel of scientists says. The warnings came in a report drafted by the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The 29-page summary, leaked and posted on a blog critical of the panel, has been distributed to governments around the world for review. It could change before it is released...
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Egyptian tycoon says Wind Mobile in peril due to Ottawa policy
2013-10-17 06:30:13| IT Services - Topix.net
Egyptian telecom magnate Naguib Sawiris said on Wednesday the lack of clarity around Ottawa's telecom policy has put Wind Mobile, the largest new entrant in the Canadian wireless market, at risk of going bust.
Stephen Harper ignores Canadas First Nations at own peril: Walkom
2013-10-17 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Historically, the Canadian government has catered to aboriginals only when it needed them. It needs them now. Specifically, Prime Minister Stephen Harper needs First Nations on side if his government is to push through its ambitious resource development plans and reap the requisite political awards. British Columbias native communities have the capacity to tie up perhaps indefinitely Harpers proposed oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast. They have promised to do just that. Mining development...
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The Bay of Bengal, in Peril From Climate Change
2013-10-14 03:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: EARLY one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asias rising powers. Its low-lying littoral including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra is home to over half a billion people who are now acutely vulnerable to rising sea levels. Storms are a constant threat; over the weekend, a cyclone, Phailin, swept in from the bay to strike the coastal Indian state of Odisha,...
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South Asia confronts climate peril
2013-10-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Express: Climate change is for real, says Sunita Narain, the Director-General of the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). The world needs to cut emissions drastically. South Asia is the most vulnerable. The poorest, who are not responsible for climate change, are the worst affected. Sunita was speaking at a two-day South Asia media briefing on climate change at Delhi where nearly 100 journalists, from all states in India, and from the neighbouring countries of Sri Lanka, Bhutan,...
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