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Sharks Face Growing Threat Warming and Acidic Seas

2015-07-10 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Shark Week, the annual television extravaganza featuring the most terrifying and toothiest fish in the sea, will wind down over the weekend. But even though sharks may disappear from the collective consciousness for another year, that doesn't mean they'll cease to exist. Like many species, sharks face a looming threat: a changing climate. The most ancient sharks date back to 450 million years ago, during a period when the oceans were much warmer and much more acidic -- an environment today's sharks...

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'Anti-Petroleum' Movement Growing Security Threat to Canada, RCMP Say

2015-02-17 14:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe & Mail: The RCMP has labelled the "anti-petroleum" movement as a growing and violent threat to Canada's security, raising fears among environmentalists that they face increased surveillance, and possibly worse, under the Harper government's new terrorism legislation. In highly charged language that reflects the government's hostility toward environmental activists, an RCMP intelligence assessment warns that foreign-funded groups are bent on blocking oil sands expansion and pipeline construction, and that...

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IOM calls for action to curb growing threat to Libyan migrants

2015-02-17 01:00:00| Ship Technology

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has asked world governments to take immediate action to face the growing threat to migrants in the wake of increasing violence in Libya.

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Climate change poses growing health threat

2014-08-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Climate change poses a growing health threat, the UN warned on Wednesday, saying extreme weather and rising temperatures could claim hundreds of thousands of lives and spread disease. "Climate change is no longer only an environmental issue," said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, head of the climate change team at the World Health Organisation (WHO). The UN agency on Wednesday began a three-day conference at its Geneva base, folding together climate and health issues. The goal is to put health in the...

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Obama says climate change growing threat to health

2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: President Barack Obama said the curbs on carbon emissions to combat climate change that his administration plans to unveil next week will also help address a growing threat to the nations health. We dont have to choose between the health of our economy and the health of our children, he said in his weekly address, which was recorded yesterday at Childrens National Medical Center in Washington. As president, and as a parent, I refuse to condemn our children to a planet thats beyond fixing....

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