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Pharrell brings "Happy" message on climate change to UN
2015-03-21 07:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: About 1,200 middle school children trudged through the latest snow storm to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday evening to hear hip hop singer and producer Pharrell Williams talk about climate change. The U.N. sponsored the event, along the U.N. Foundation and MixRadio, to celebrate International Day of Happiness, established by the world organization in 2012. It transformed a normally conflict-focused, staid venue into a dramatically "happy" environment with a clear message: The next...
US Climate Change Envoy: China, US Working Closer on Deal
2015-03-20 10:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A U.S. envoy for climate change said Friday that China and the U.S. are working more closely than ever ahead of a conference this year in Paris that raises hopes for a global plan to cut greenhouse emissions. Special Envoy Todd Stern told reporters in Beijing that he still expects hard negotiations between many countries in advance of the U.N. summit. But he told reporters there's "a greater level of convergence on some very important structural issues" compared to the months before the last major...
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Amazon rainforest losing capacity fight climate change as trees die
2015-03-20 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to absorb carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as trees are dying, which could have negative implication on climate change across the globe. A study led by the University of Leeds revealed that tree growth in the Amazon rainforest has declined by one-third since the 1980s and that the net uptake of carbon dioxide in the rainforest has dropped by half. For the first time in history, carbon dioxide absorption by the Amazon rainforest has been surpassed...
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Impact of climate change on corn, soybeans
2015-03-19 19:34:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Read more about the impact of warmer temps and higher C02 rates on crops. Interstitial Ads Frequency: -1
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Our campaign puts climate change where it should be on front page
2015-03-19 15:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Journalism claims to hold power to account. Yet all too often it sides with power against the powerless. Proprietors interests are stealthily advanced, corporate press releases are disguised as news, favoured businesses and political parties are protected from serious scrutiny. Above all, power determines the issues that the media treats as significant. Matters of the utmost importance such as inequality, poverty, exploitation, corporate crime and the destruction of the natural world are...
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