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DAPL Leaves Climate Change & Polluted Water for Future Generations
2016-09-18 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Country Today: The battle cries across the length of Dakota Access crude oil pipeline are Water is Life and For Future Generations. These cries have been clearest at Standing Rock where a vast Indigenous community is defending the drinking water of the Tribe and all the downstream people for present and future generations. After joining my allies who were opposing DAPL in Iowa, I went to Standing Rock in early August to serve as a lawyer on the ground. I went to be an advocate for the River itself and for...
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Climate change plagues Madagascar's poor: 'The water rose so fast.'
2016-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Angenie, 21, lives in a country many people think of as an ecological paradise, home to a unique diversity of plants and animals. Yet within the past three years she has witnessed droughts and floods so severe she has had to flee her home to escape them twice. Angenie grew up in southern Madagascar where, as a child, she remembers things being green. But for the past few years a severe drought, blamed on the devastating effects of El Nio, has gripped the southern region. The land got dry,...
Climate change plagues Madagascar's poor: 'The water rose so fast'
2016-07-07 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Angenie, 21, lives in a country many people think of as an ecological paradise, home to a unique diversity of plants and animals. Yet within the past three years she has witnessed droughts and floods so severe she has had to flee her home to escape them twice. Angenie grew up in southern Madagascar where, as a child, she remembers things being green. But for the past few years a severe drought, blamed on the devastating effects of El Nio, has gripped the southern region. The land got dry,...
Climate change blamed for depletion of water level in Dumba lake
2016-06-18 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
My Republica: The existence of the mesmerizing Dumba lake located at Jomsom 9 is in peril. The rise in temperature, natural disasters and other human causes are being blamed for the depletion of water levels in the lake and deformation of soil in the surrounding areas. The lake situated at around 3,500 meters above sea level can be reached at an hour's walk from the district headquarters of Jomsom. The lake which is 400 meters in length and one hundred meter wide is assumed to be 10 meters deep. The water...
Water and Climate Change
2016-04-27 15:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Aerial view of Jaguari Reservoir which is part of Brazil's Cantareira system (the largest system of public water supplies in Latin America) which provides fifty percent of Sao Paulo's drinking water. Representatives of the more than 150 countries meeting in New York on April 22 for the symbolic signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change can justly celebrate a historic moment. Phasing out global greenhouse gas emissions this century and holding global average warming to "well-below" 2°C...
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