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Ocean acidification already taking toll on coral reef growth
2016-02-26 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Comment: Of particular concern are losses of older corals, which release more eggs and sperm during reproduction than young ones, and bleaching in nurseries of corals established to replace those that die off. The findings were published in the science journal Nature. Can we administer a similar procedure to save the reefs globally? Qld Senator Larissa Waters is the Australian Greens Deputy Leader and climate change spokesperson. But even if the experiments underlying the study did exactly that,...
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Cyclone-hit remote Fiji islands begin to receive aid, death toll 42
2016-02-24 06:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Fijian government and international aid agencies began delivering much needed aid on Wednesday to the Pacific nation's remote islands and coastal villages devastated by a powerful cyclone that killed 42 people. The death toll has crept up in the days since Cyclone Winston struck Fiji late on Saturday as communication has gradually been restored with the outer reaches of the archipelago that is home to some 900,000 people. Thousands of people are still sheltering in evacuation centers, their...
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UK's first toll motorway for sale
2016-02-11 22:28:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The loss-making M6 Toll road is put up for sale for nearly 2bn, the BBC understands.
The deadly toll of city smog
2016-02-07 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In mid-January 2016 a three-day smog covered London, Nottingham, Leicester and Birmingham. January used to be a peak month for pea-souper smogs. Between 1952 and 1962 these killed nearly 15,000 Londoners and many people in other cities including Glasgow and Manchester. These days our winter smogs are full of nitrogen dioxide and particles from diesel exhaust rather than smoke from coal. Madrid is the latest European capital to introduce emergency measures to control pollution episodes. If Madrids...
Shock figures to reveal deadly toll of global air pollution
2016-01-16 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The World Health Organisation has issued a stark new warning about deadly levels of pollution in many of the worlds biggest cities, claiming poor air quality is killing millions and threatening to overwhelm health services across the globe. Before the release next month of figures that will show air pollution has worsened since 2014 in hundreds of already blighted urban areas, the WHO says there is now a global public health emergency that will have untold financial implications for governments....
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