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Climate change to disrupt soil nutrients in drylands
2013-11-02 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: The increased aridity expected this century as a result of change may disrupt the balance of key soil nutrients with a knock-on effect on soil fertility threatening livelihoods of more than two billion people, a study finds. The drop in nitrogen and carbon concentrations that occurs as soils become dryer could have serious effects on ecosystem services such as food, carbon storage and biodiversity, according to the Nature paper published today. Loss of nitrogen and carbon, which are the basic building...
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Climate change threatens world food supply, panel warns
2013-11-02 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: An international scientific panel has found that climate change will pose sharp risks to the world's food supply in coming decades, potentially reducing output and sending prices higher in a period when global food demand is expected to soar. That finding is by far the starkest warning that the UN-appointed group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has issued regarding the food supply. Its 2007 report was more sanguine, essentially finding that climatic warming and the rising level...
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Damage to poor countries from climate change goes beyond money: Report
2013-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Most of the ancient ruins that Moses Ittu, 67, a resident of Lelu Island in the Federated State of Micronesia, visited and played around during his childhood have since disappeared into the ocean. In the last few decades, residents of the island have increasingly used the ancient stones to build walls to shield their homes and livelihoods from pounding waves and creeping sea water. "The sea keeps on rising, and the people need to protect themselves," Ittu told researchers who studied adaptation...
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Africa urged to pursue homegrown climate change solutions
2013-11-01 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: African nations are entitled to a fair share of financial and other assistance from the developed world to help them cope with climate change, but they should also take the initiative to green their own economies and use land more sustainably and productively, experts told a conference on climate change and development in Ethiopia this month. The Kenya-based Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), a coalition of non-governmental organisations, urged rich nations to commit at upcoming U.N....
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Climate Change May Curb Profits From Fossil Fuels, Study Says
2013-10-31 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Fossil-fuel assets such as coal mines and gas wells may lose value if climate change prompts tougher regulations, according to a report from Al Gore and David Bloods Generation Investment Management. About two-thirds of the fossil fuels still underground must remain there if the planet is to meet a United Nations target of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). That means assets such as coal mines and gas wells may have to reduce production, cutting profits, according...
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