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Climate study predicts a watery future for New York, Boston and Miami
2013-07-29 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 1,700 American cities and towns including Boston, New York, and Miami are at greater risk from rising sea levels than previously feared, a new study has found. By 2100, the future of at least part of these 1,700 locations will be "locked in" by greenhouse gas emissions built up in the atmosphere, the analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday found. The survey does not specify a date by which these cities, or parts of them, would actually...
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Future Tense Event: Can an Agricultural Revolution Fight Climate Change? - Slate Magazine
2013-07-16 15:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Cars and coal may get most of the attention, but one of the biggest contributors to climate change is the food industry. Globally, agriculture accounts for at least 25 percent of humanity's annual greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. But some think that this situation could be radically changedinstead of just cutting agriculture's carbon footprint, maybe we can use agriculture to reverse climate change. By harnessing photosynthesis' power, experts...
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Climate change threatens trouble in the near future, World Bank says
2013-06-19 10:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The World Bank is beginning to commit billions of dollars to flood prevention, water management and other projects to help major Asian cities avoid the expected impact of climate change, a dramatic example of how short the horizon has become to alleviate the effects of global warming. Places such as Bangkok, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City are now considered "hot spots' that will bear the brunt of the impact as sea levels rise, tropical storms become more violent, and rainfall becomes both more sporadic...
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Climate change threatening future life
2013-05-26 03:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Nation: Climate change seems to have exacerbated the stupidity of US daily life, or maybe weve long suffered from the consequences of the capitalist mode of production, plus the negative spin offs from the massive US war machine. Both systems feed off nature, which cannot sustain their demands on it. For example, both systems emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide, the most significant greenhouse gas that gets burned in production and war, and gets pumped into the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning and other...
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Antarctic team digs deep to predict climate future as frozen continent becomes research hub
2013-04-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice -- ice that records our climate's past and could point to its future. They drilled out hundreds of ice cores, each slightly longer and wider than a baseball bat, from the half-mile-thick ice covering Antarctica's Roosevelt Island. The cores, which may total 150,000 years of snowfall, almost didn't survive the boat ride to...
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