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World leaders sign on to climate change deal
2016-04-22 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Village Sun Times: The recent El Nio likely played a role in many or all of these, but scientists say climate change nearly certainly did too. The US is a key concern for the Paris Agreement as other countries worry what the next president might do. The non-binding treaty, approved in Paris in December after years of United Nations climate negotiations, aims to slow the rise of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, blamed for putting Earth on a risky warming path. "Today marks a beginning, a historic start"....
Paris Climate Pact Affirmed in UN Earth Day Ceremony
2016-04-22 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: As global leaders sign the Paris Agreement on climate change today at UN Headquarters, the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction says they must go beyond their existing commitments if the world is to avoid future catastrophic weather events. "I welcome the fact that over 160 countries have declared they are signing up to the Paris Agreement but we are in real danger of being overtaken by the rapid pace of global warming if signatories do not significantly scale up the level of their...
Make this Earth Day a turning point in fighting climate change
2016-04-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Free Press: On the first Earth Day in 1970, 20 million people raised their voices for the environment. Their energy sparked a movement that now engages more than 1 billion people, in almost every country in the world. Earth Day continues to be the single largest annual secular event in history. The sheer size of the first protest - along with increasing visual evidence of dire health threats associated with air and toxic pollution - forced Congress to pass some of the world's toughest environmental laws,...
175 states sign landmark Paris deal on climate change, key step toward implementation
2016-04-22 15:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Leaders from 175 countries signed the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal took a key step toward entering into force years ahead of schedule The historic agreement on climate change marked a major milestone on Friday with a record 175 countries signing on to it on opening day. But world leaders made clear more action is needed, and quickly, to fight a relentless rise in global temperatures. With the planet heating up to record levels, sea levels rising and glaciers...
Climate change adds urgency to push to save world seeds
2016-04-22 14:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: During the 872-day German siege of Leningrad in World War II, in which an estimated 1.1 million civilians died, a small band of workers devoted themselves to safeguarding a priceless trove of 200,000 seeds at the Institute of Plant Industry. Then the worlds largest seed bank, the collection had been amassed, in large part, by famed Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov during expeditions to 64 countries. As the siege wore on and starvation became epidemic, workers at the institute refused to eat the...
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