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Don Cheadle: Protect World's Vulnerable From Climate Change
2015-12-11 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Rising seas, catastrophic droughts, severe storms. While these events sound like the backdrop for a blockbuster movie, these are real impacts we're beginning to see across the world, worsened by climate change. In the U.S., California is still suffering from one of the worst droughts on record, while the Carolinas are still cleaning up from October's historic rain and flooding. A recent study found that 96% of Americans live in a county hit by at least one weather-related disaster in the last...
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Veteran climate scientists hopeful a historic Paris deal hours away
2015-12-11 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Theres a cafe next door to the thronging media centre at the UN global climate talks in Paris where the constant clang of the door to the chill air outside can barely be heard above the buzz. Veteran climate scientist and biologist Professor Lesley Hughes has taken a seat with me close by and is struggling to hear herself think. But the chaos and noise of the global climate talks are not enough to drown out her feeling that a historic moment could be only hours away. Minutes earlier, scientists...
Paris painted yellow w/ eco paint climate activists scale Arc de Triomphe
2015-12-11 16:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On the UN climate summits penultimate day on Friday, Greenpeace activists paint Pariss streets yellow with eco paint. They dangle banners from the Arc de Triomphe calling on the French president, François Hollande, to renew the energy
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Obama, Xi commit to work to get climate deal: White House
2015-12-11 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed during a phone call overnight that their negotiating teams would work together closely to reach an ambitious climate deal at international talks in Paris, the White House said. "Both leaders agreed that the Paris conference presents a crucial opportunity to galvanize global efforts to meet the climate change challenge," the White House said in a statement about the call released on Friday.
Black Lives Matter demonstration in Paris calls climate justice
2015-12-11 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
City Paper: Yesterday in Paris, United States delegates representing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) and students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) held a demonstration at the high-profile climate talks. The action built on the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. that has called for police reform in response to systemic police brutality against black people. In a press statement, Jacqui...
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