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Cattle drugs 'could fuel climate change'
2016-05-25 03:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Dosing farm animals with antibiotics increases greenhouse gas emissions from cow dung, research suggests. Scientists say the drugs boost methane production in cowpats - apparently by favouring antibiotic-resistant, methane-producing organisms in the gut. Antibiotics also change the microbes which inhabit dung beetles, although apparently with no adverse effects. The researchers say it's proof that antibiotic use on farms has unintended, cascading effects on the environment. For the new...
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Public Schools in Portland Banned from Teaching Materials that Denies Climate Change
2016-05-25 02:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: In hopes to facilitate better climate education for the children, the Portland Public Schools board have implemented drastic measures banning any teaching materials that deny or cast a doubt on climate change. The resolution, passed last May 17, requires school district to remove textbooks and other teaching materials that suggest that climate change is not happening, or that states that human activities have nothing to with the changing climate. The unanimously approved resolution also limit...
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10 Ways Climate Science Has Advanced Since An Inconvenient Truth
2016-05-25 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The aughts were an inconvenient time for environmentalism. President George W. Bush declared the Kyoto Protocol, the first international treaty meant to address climate change, dead. Environmentalists charged widespread political interference in climate change science conducted at federal agencies. Most people had not heard of global warming. Then former Vice President Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth landed with a thud on the publics consciousness. It grossed $24 million, won two Academy Awards...
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Tuvalu PM urges new legal framework for climate migrants
2016-05-24 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tuvalu's prime minister on Tuesday called for a U.N. resolution to create legal protection for people displaced by the impacts of climate change, saying there was currently no international framework to protect their rights. Speaking at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, where he made the proposal, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation it was time to start working out how to deal with communities that might have to be moved due to rising seas, water shortages and other threats to their...
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Climate Change, Global Health Intimately Linked, UN Official Stresses
2016-05-24 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Global health hinges on drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a chief mover in the field of climate change told delegates Tuesday at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, praised the groundbreaking Paris Climate Change Agreement signed by 177 countries and likely to come into force in the next year or two. She says the deal is promising for both the climate and global health. "In...
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