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Homeless Nepal quake survivors fear climate shocks
2016-04-25 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal a year ago, 25-year-old Yama Tamang lost his farm, where he used to grow maize. To support his wife and their three children, he now makes bamboo baskets in the Daamgade temporary camp in Dhading district, 90 km (56 miles) from the capital, Kathmandu. The baskets are used on construction sites for carrying materials like stones and cement. Daamgade, one of seven camps set up in Dhading, shelters 131 families, most of whom also make baskets for a...
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UK envoy: Carbon pricing too sluggish to meet climate goals
2016-04-25 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Sir David King favours technology development over emissions trading as a way to shift emerging economies off coal Sir David King is the UK foreign office permanent representative on climate change Carbon pricing is too sluggish a weapon against climate change, top UK envoy Sir David King said on Monday. Speaking at a sustainability event in London, Sir David argued innovation to bring down the cost of clean technology would bring swifter results. I dont think it [carbon pricing]...
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Clinton snubs Koch endorsement over climate change denial
2016-04-25 11:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: US oil billionaire Charles Koch would consider supporting Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton for president, he told ABC News at the weekend. Speaking of his disgust with the Republican field, he said "it`s possible" Clinton would make a better leader. Although he added: "We would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric. Let me put it that way." Clinton, who has been attacked by Democrat rival Bernie Sanders for taking campaign contributions from oil interests,...
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Role of animals in mitigating climate change varies across tropical forests
2016-04-25 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, sheds important new light on the role seed dispersal by animals plays in mitigating climate change, and how this role can vary in tropical forests across the world. In tropical forests of the Americas, Africa and South Asia, a large majority of tree species depend on animals for seed dispersal. Tree species with large seeds attain greater adult sizes than those having smaller seeds. Using simulations, the researchers showed that declines...
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China, U.S. pledge to ratify Paris climate deal this year
2016-04-25 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China and the United States, the world's top producers of greenhouse gas emissions, pledged on Friday to formally adopt by the end of the year a Paris deal to slow global warming, raising the prospects of it being enforced much faster than anticipated. The United Nations said 175 states took the first step of signing the deal on Friday, the biggest day one endorsement of a global agreement. Of those, 15 states also formally notified the United Nations that they had ratified the deal. Many countries...
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