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Climate change is moving mountains, research says
2015-11-05 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] For millions of years global climate change has altered the structure and internal movement of mountain ranges, but the resulting glacial development and erosion can in turn change a mountain's local climate. The degree of this cause-and-effect relationship has never been clearly observed, until now. Based on research led by University of Cincinnati geologist Eva Enkelmann in the St. Elias Mountain Range - located along the Pacific coastal region of North America - the way…
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VW scandal might spur new low-emission car solutions, says Germany
2015-11-04 12:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Volkswagens emissions cheating scandal could force German carmakers to come up with new and better ways to build more climate-friendly vehicles, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Deputy environment minister, Jochen Flasbarth, said he did not believe the scandal had damaged Germanys image as a leader in environmental protection ahead of a UN climate summit in Paris in December. Climate talks in recent weeks had not been negatively impacted by the revelations that Volkswagen had installed...
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Australia must help Pacific islands at Paris climate summit, says PNG leader
2015-11-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Papua New Guineas prime minister Peter ONeill has urged Australia to be an advocate for the Pacific in pushing for a strong agreement at this months worldwide climate change talks in Paris. The governments of more than 190 nations will meet at COP21 in the French capital, beginning on 30 November, to discuss a new global climate accord. ONeill and other Pacific leaders whose countries are already experiencing the impacts of climate change are preparing to vigorously prosecute their...
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Did Dust Bowl's ravages end in 1940s? New study says no
2015-10-31 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A recent study led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Goodrich Chair of Excellence Thanos Papanicolaou could very well change the way we view the health of our nation's soil, even potentially altering history books. The paper, soon-to-be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research--Biogeosciences, focuses on modeling carbon budgets in agricultural areas. A carbon budget is one measure of the amount of health or energy in a particular area. The study found that carbon budgets in...
Paris 2015: Carbon promises lock in 2.7 degrees warming, UN says
2015-10-31 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The world remains on course to exceed dangerous temperature increases even if nations carry out pledges they make at next month's global climate summit in Paris, the United Nations says. An assessment by the UN of 146 national goals and those of the European Union covering about 86 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions found they would cut average per capita pollution by as much as 8 per cent by 2025 and 9 per cent by 2030 compared with the current trajectory. So-called Intended Nationally Determined...
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