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Ban says people feel 'planet's wrath' over warming
2013-11-19 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: People around the world are feeling the "wrath of a warming planet", U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, urging almost 200 governments to take tougher action to reach a deal in 2015 on fighting global warming. Ban told environment ministers at climate talks in Warsaw they had a steep climb ahead to agree to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say fuel more extreme weather. The Warsaw talks are struggling to lay the foundations for a new global accord, meant to...
Alien spotting: By 2020, well finally have the ability to locate life-harboring, alien planets
2013-11-08 17:49:02| Extremetech
The universe, as you probably know, is almost impossibly large. It is almost 100 billion light years across and consists of of billions of galaxies and trillions of stars. The latest estimate is that there are up to 50 sextillion potentially habitable planets in the universe. Now it's time to go one step further, though: The scientific community is preparing to launch a bevy of new space telescopes that can peer across the universe and tell us how many of those planets actually harbor life.
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Kepler: 20% of Sun-like stars have habitable planets, alien life Drake equation finally has a leg to stand on
2013-11-06 15:37:55| Extremetech
The Kepler space observatory says there should be about 8.8 billion potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way. That has big implications for the search for life, and much more.
Warming oceans will affect the planet's poorest
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Greenhouse gas emissions from industry and power generation have begun to trigger ocean changes that will impose huge costs to the poorest people on the planet. Only in the polar regions would there be any increase in productivity or in oxygen levels. Nowhere would there be any cooling. These changes are likely to cascade through marine ecosystems and habitats to the deep ocean itself, and to affect humans along the way, according to a report published this month in the journal Public Library of...
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'Two planets not enough to sustain mankind'
2013-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Cape Argus: We are using 50 percent more resources than the Earth can sustainably produce, and unless we change course not even two planets will be enough to sustain mankind. This is the message from Morne du Plessis, chief executive of WWF-SA, on Earth Overshoot Day. This is the day of the year when people have used as much renewable natural resources as our planet can regenerate in one year. The day was initiated by the Global Footprint Network, which uses ecological footprint data to measure what...
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