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Major businesses call for climate change laws
2013-04-10 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Several major companies issued a joint call Wednesday for the United States to enact legislation to battle climate change, saying that the issue was critical to their businesses. Thirty-three firms including online retailer eBay, tech giant Intel, coffee leader Starbucks and sportswear makers Adidas, Nike, Patagonia, The North Face and Timberland called climate change a threat that required coordinated action. "We cannot risk our kids` futures on the false hope that the vast majority of scientists...
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New science standards call for teaching climate change and more
2013-04-10 02:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The politically touchy topic of climate change will be taught more deeply to students under proposed new national science standards released Tuesday. The Next Generation Science Standards, developed over the last year by California and 25 other states in conjunction with several national scientific organizations, represent the first effort in some 15 years to transform the way science is taught in million of classrooms. The multi-state consortium is proposing that students learn fewer standards...
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Australia: Climate change report a wake-up call: Combet
2013-04-03 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says a new report is a wake-up call to those who deny global warming is a problem. The Climate Commission's latest report warns that of extreme weather in Australia. The report, which has been backed by Australia's top climate scientists and science bodies, says that in some cases Australia's climate has shifted permanently. Mr Combet says the report underpins the reason why the Government has put a price on carbon. "These are things that people in...
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At climate change conference, Sanders leads call for action
2013-03-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Argus: It was fitting that on a day devoted to talking about global warming, a makeshift parking lot at Montpelier High School was a mud pit by 1 p.m. in the middle of March. Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., hosted a conference on climate change Saturday at Montpelier High School. Around 400 Vermonters heard from Sanders, state officials, students at the University of Vermont and climate author Bill McKibben about what may happen to the planet if something is not done to curb climate change. Global warming...
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Nepal: Call for interdisciplinary strategies to combat climate change impacts
2013-03-16 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Republica: A regional workshop on ´climate change impacts in Asian mountains´ has stressed for a pressing need to unite varied disciplines and foster strategies in order to lessen the impact of climate change on Asia´s mountainous countries. The 3-day workshop organized by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and International Center for Integrated Mountain development (ICIMOD) in the capital this week concluded that there is a need to better harness...
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