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Amazon rainforest losses impact on climate change, study shows
2015-04-21 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Human activity has removed more than one-tenth of trees and plants from the Amazon rainforest since the 1960s, a study shows. Widespread removal of trees has contributed to a rise in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, increasing the potential impact of climate change, researchers say. Deforestation of the Amazon accounted for 1.5 per cent of the increase in carbon dioxide levels seen since the mid-nineteenth century, the team says. However, this …
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How a tiny change in the global climate could shake up the entire agriculture industry
2015-04-20 20:22:37| Agriculture - Topix.net
Climate change is going to affect agriculture across the world as rising temperatures make many dry regions even drier, hot regions hotter, and wet regions more prone to flooding. All of those changes are going to affect the way the world's food is grown.
Obama Says Climate Change Can No Longer Be Ignored as Jeb Bush Admits Hes Concerned
2015-04-20 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In honor of Earth Day this Wednesday, President Obamas weekly Saturday morning address to the nation was titled Climate Change Can No Longer Be Ignored. He opened with an oblique dig at Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, head of the Senate Environment Committee, who disproved global warming on the floor of the Senate by throwing a snowball. 2014 was the planets warmest year on record, said Obama. Fourteen of the 15 hottest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century....
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Likely GOP Candidate Carly Fiorina: Fix Climate Change with Innovation, Not Regulation
2015-04-17 14:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: The US should tackle climate change through innovation instead of regulation, says likely GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. An international deal to slash planet-warming emissions would not be effective, Ms. Fiorina said at a Monitor-hosted breakfast Thursday, and those concerned about global warming should focus instead on technological advances that could reduce climate-altering greenhouse emissions. The only answer to this is innovation, and in that America could be the best in...
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Climate Change Plan Faces High-Profile Legal Test
2015-04-15 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The centerpiece of the Obama administration's effort to tackle climate change is facing a high-profile legal test as a federal appeals court considers a plan that has triggered furious opposition from Republicans, industry figures and coal-reliant states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit hears arguments Thursday in two cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's ambitious proposal to slash carbon pollution from the nation's coal-fired power plants that is blamed for global...
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