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Hillary Clinton: Climate change has contributed to refugee crises, including Syria
2015-11-04 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Hillary Clinton said climate change is a contributing factor to refugee crises Civil war in Syria and the rise of ISIS have led to a mass exodus from the Arab nation Climate change is a contributing factor in the world's most dire refugee crises, including the one in Syria, Hillary Clinton said in Iowa Tuesday. Clinton was asked at a town hall in Coralville about what the United States can do about refugee crises in Syria and Africa. After a long answer on Syria, including calling for a international...
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Bernie Sanders launches new climate plan to curb US fossil fuel extraction
2015-11-04 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bernie Sanders launched a new climate campaign on Wednesday, aimed at fighting global warming by banning new coal, oil and gas mining on public land. The Keep it in the Ground Act co-sponsored by the senator and Democratic presidential candidate aims at plugging one of the big gaps in Barack Obamas climate change plan: his administrations continued sanction of fossil fuel extraction on the governments lands and waters. The bill, jointly introduced with Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator...
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Did climate change jump-start human evolution in East Africa?
2015-11-04 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: IT`S been called the cradle of humanity, but the significance of East Africa`s Turkana basin in human history is still unclear. Now some ancient herbivore teeth are revealing the region`s special climate around the time our genus Homo first appeared. Turkana, part of the Great Rift Valley straddling Kenya and Ethiopia, has been a hallowed site for the study of human evolution ever since Maeve and Richard Leakey began uncovering fossils there in the 1960s. Ranging from Australopithecus to our own...
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China burns much more coal than reported, complicating climate talks
2015-11-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: China, the worlds leading emitter of greenhouse gases from coal, has been burning up to 17 percent more coal a year than the government previously disclosed, according to newly released data. The finding could complicate the already difficult efforts to limit global warming. Even for a country of Chinas size, the scale of the correction is immense. The sharp upward revision in official figures means that China has released much more carbon dioxide almost a billion more tons a year according...
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Poor nations struggle to spend climate aid billions
2015-11-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Billions of dollars pledged by developed nations in climate finance over the last decade remain unused as poor countries that often most need the money are ill-equipped to spend it, international charity WaterAid said on Tuesday. Despite donors' willingness to provide funding, vulnerable countries worst hit by rising climate pressures such as droughts and floods often lack the capacity to implement, manage and oversee projects to help them cope, WaterAid said. "Countries that are most in need...
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