Summer of Science - Plastic Poses a Growing Threat to Seabirds, Study Says - NYTimes.com
... debris called calcareous
ooze (light blue). Scientists hope that the map of seafloor components,
like remnants of once living sea creatures, will help them to better
understand how
climate change affects the ocean. JOANNA KLEIN We
were struck by the massive response to our post on how it's possible for
individuals to have the same B.M.I. but very different bodies. Readers
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... BONN, Germany (Reuters) -
Climate change
is bringing small risks that tropical cyclones will form in the Persian
Gulf for the first time, in a threat to cities such as Dubai or Doha
which are unprepared for big storm surges, a U.S. study said on Monday.
Tampa in Florida and Cairns in Australia, two places where cyclones
already happen, would be increasingly vulnerable to extreme storms this
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... BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Chances that governments will work out a U.N. accord to combat
climate change
in December seem brighter than in the run-up to a failed attempt in
2009, experts said as delegates from almost 200 nations met on Monday,
hoping to bridge deep divisions. Memories of a U.N. summit in Copenhagen
in December 2009, when world leaders including U.S. President Barack
Obama ...
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Obama changing name of Alaskas Mount McKinley to Denali - Yahoo News (3 Additional Articles)
... the beginning of a three-day presidential trip to Alaska, is a
sign of how hard the White House will push during Obama's remaining 16
months as president to ensure his fight to address
climate change
is part of his legacy. Renaming the mountain, which has an elevation of
more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), makes headlines for his climate
quest while also creating goodwill in a state that has ...
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Indonesia looks to increase emissions cut pledge ahead of Paris meet - Yahoo News (2 Additional Articles)
... forests, and the biggest palm oil producer, Indonesia will have a
key role at the United Nation's Paris climate conference late this
year, which is designed to reach a plan to reduce
global warming.
"We intend to increase the contribution and we will do so," Rachmat
Witoelar, President Joko Widodo's special envoy for climate change, told
Reuters. "But we have to figure out the timeline." ...
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U.S. presidential hopeful Sanders gains ground on Clinton in Iowa poll - Yahoo News (3 Additional Articles)
... because of convenience. Sanders has staked out a liberal platform
in his campaign, touching topics that include minimum wages, economic
inequality, campaign finance reform and
climate change. His
campaign website, however, omits the issues of national security and
foreign policy. On Sunday, he faced questions about his votes against
U.S. use of military force in Iraq and in Syria, as ...
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Obama changing name of Alaskas Mount McKinley to Denali - Yahoo News (2 Additional Articles)
... the beginning of a three-day presidential trip to Alaska, is a
sign of how hard the White House will push during Obama's remaining 16
months as president to ensure his fight to address
climate change
is part of his legacy. Renaming the mountain, which has an elevation of
more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), makes headlines for his climate
quest while also creating goodwill in a state that has ...
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Party leaders in Scotland make climate change pledge - BBC News
... Image caption The party leaders have promised their manifestos will be consistent with Scotland's
Climate Change
Act The leaders of Scotland's five main political parties have promised
to set out plans on how they will tackle climate change and reduce
emissions. An agreement was brokered by WWF Scotland ahead of the
Holyrood election next year. The organisation said the leaders had
committed ...
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The ice curtain that divides US families from Russian cousins - BBC News
... certain that this relaxed atmosphere will continue. The Diomede
islands lie just below the Arctic Circle, where vast quantities of
natural resources are becoming accessible thanks to
climate change
and the melting of the ice. According to US geological surveys, the
Arctic accounts for 13% of the world's undiscovered oil and 30% of its
natural gas. The much shorter northern shipping routes ...
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Global warming carving changes into Alaska in fire and ice - Yahoo News (62 Additional Articles)
... Obama leaves Monday for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he will speak at a State Department
climate change
conference and become the first president to visit the Alaska Arctic.
There, and in the sub-Arctic part of the state, he will see the damage
caused by warming damage that has been evident to scientists for years.
More than 3.5 trillion tons of water have melted off of Alaska's ...
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In Alaska, Obama to walk fine line on climate change, energy - Yahoo News (151 Additional Articles)
... Glacier Bay National Park. With melting glaciers and rising seas
as his backdrop, President Barack Obama will visit Alaska next week to
press for urgent global action to combat
climate change, even as
he carefully calibrates his message in a state heavily dependent on oil.
(AP Photo/Kathy Matheson) WASHINGTON (AP) With melting glaciers and
rising seas as his backdrop, President Barack ...
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Obama heads north to Alaska, where drilling decision looms large - Yahoo News (3 Additional Articles)
... Alaska aimed at drawing attention to powerful images of melting
glaciers and eroding coastlines as a "wakeup call" to Americans in the
Lower 48 states about the urgent need to address
climate change.
The trip is part of a broad campaign to seal an international deal later
this year to curb carbon emissions, something the White House hopes
will cap Obama's legacy on climate during his time in ...
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Anguish of disappearance continues across the world, say campaigners - Yahoo News (4 Additional Articles)
... (Editing by Ros Russell; Please credit the Thomson Reuters
Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers
humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and
climate change. Visit www.trust.org) ...
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Bill Maher Calls Out Rick Santorum On Climate Change
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Huffington Post Posted: 08/29/2015 04:45 PM EDT Bill Maher thinks all
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What 4 Top Catholic Archbishops Expect From The Pope's Visit
... that just because something is on the pope's schedule does not
mean it will happen as scripted. Nonetheless, Auza expects the pope's
U.N. address to touch on sustainable development,
climate change
and peace. The pope also "won't shy away from" talking about issues on
which his stance differs from that of many U.N. member nations, Auza
added. As the head of the Vatican state, Francis is ...
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Forget goals, get back to nature to save planet, says Indian conservationist - Yahoo News (2 Additional Articles)
... by Magdalena Mis, editing by Ros Russell; Please credit Thomson
Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers
humanitarian news, women's rights, corruption and
climate change. Visit www.trust.org) ...
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New plan seeks to protect Scotland's peatlands - BBC News
... an estimated 3,000 megatonnes of carbon as well as providing a
habitat for a range of wild animals and plants. "Cinderella habitat" Dr
Aileen McLeod, Minister for Environment,
Climate Change and Land
Reform, welcomed the release of the plan. She said: "Scotland is a
peat-rich nation, and our peatlands are now recognised globally for
their outstanding biodiversity and carbon storage. " ...
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Hurricane Katrina: George Bush in New Orleans 10 years on - BBC News
... since become a model for the rest of the nation "in disaster
response and resilience", stressing the importance of other cities
investing in storm preparation for disasters caused by
global warming..
Despite massive destruction, the city has risen anew out of the storm.
New Orleans' rebirth has been bolstered by billions of federal dollars,
largely spurred by Mr Obama. The city has ...
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'Inappropriate insulation causing damp in social housing' - BBC News
... Image caption Arfon MP Hywel Williams said he has heard of many
cases Plaid Cymru MP for Arfon, Hywel Williams, said he has raised the
issue with the Department of Energy and
Climate Change in
Westminster following complaints from his constituents. "This stuff has
been put into houses where the outside rendering is cracked, so once
water gets in the insulation acts as a bridge letting ...
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As the need for power surges, are small - or big - dams the answer? | Reuters (4 Additional Articles)
... he said. (Reporting by Stella Paul; editing by Laurie Goering :;
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Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news,
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UK proposes end to small-scale renewable support next year - Yahoo News (3 Additional Articles)
... for small-scale solar
projects, change the way renewable projects qualify for payments and
modify subsidies for biomass plants. Figures published by the Department
of Energy and
Climate Change show the cost of renewables
subsidies could reach 9.1 billion pounds ($14 billion) a year by the
2020/21 tax year compared with a proposed budget of 7.6 billion. The
so-called Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) ...
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... Lopez, coastal sustainability coordinator for the Lake
Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. Large swathes of the area's marshes have
eroded as storms and a rising sea level brought on by
climate change
pushed salt waters of the Gulf of Mexico farther inland, killing marsh
vegetation that acted as a buffer to surging seas. Lopez said it is not
feasible to build levees around the tiny fishing ...
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Subsidies for small scale solar face steep cuts - BBC News (2 Additional Articles)
... schemes was set to be higher than expected. Having already
announced plans to limit cash paid to on-shore wind generation and
large-scale solar farms, the Department of Energy and
Climate Change
(DECC) is now proposing significant cutbacks for small-sized green
energy producers. Solar and wind energy installations of less than 5MW
are supported by feed-in tariffs - schemes that pay ...
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Obama: New Orleans is 'moving forward' decade after storm - BBC News
... this is a city that slowly, unmistakably, together, is moving
forward." Mr Obama will stress the importance of cities investing in
storm preparation for disasters brought on by
global warming,
said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. Despite massive
destruction, the city has risen anew out of the storm. New Orleans'
rebirth has been bolstered by billions of federal dollars, ...
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Scientists squabble while Africas only penguins perish - Yahoo News (6 Additional Articles)
... shift in anchovies and sardines away from the hub of colonies
along South Africa's Atlantic coast. Scientists are unsure why the fish
have moved, considering as possible causes
climate change,
overfishing or natural fluctuations. Now, penguins must swim farther to
catch fish, leaving adults weakened. Many have died or abandoned their
chicks, with hundreds winding up in the crowded, ...
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E.ON targets United States in solar push - Yahoo Finance (5 Additional Articles)
... E.ON (EONGn.DE) aims to aggressively expand its solar business
and is banking on the United States where President Barack Obama has
pledged to promote renewables in a bid to fight
climate change.
E.ON, which has spent about 10 billion euros ($11.50 billion) on
renewable since 2007, has a pipeline of around one gigawatt (GW) of
solar in the United States, Michael Lewis, chief operating ...
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Global insecurity and refugee crisis linked to climate change - expert | Reuters (2 Additional Articles)
... TORONTO, Aug 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -
Climate change
is "adding fuel to the fire" of worsening political instability and
unrest around the world, an expert told a security forum. "We are
experiencing a surprising uptick in global insecurity... partially due
to our inability to manage climate stress," Columbia University
professor Marc Levy, who conducts studies for U.S. government ...
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'Eastside Sol' Kicks Off Community Solar Campaign in Los Angeles (VIDEO) | Jorge Madrid (2 Additional Articles)
... underlying this celebration, which expose a critical need for
increased access to solar power and other clean energy resources in
Boyle Heights and similar L.A. communities.
Climate change is
already impacting the Los Angeles area with higher than normal
temperatures, and bringing higher energy demand along with it. The city
broke its all-time record for energy demand last year on a ...
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Interview With UN Climate Change Report Author: "Avarice Has Overcome Fear" | Aiko Stevenson
... philosophy at Oxford University in 'Climate Matters.'
Temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as the global
average. That's because the Arctic is far more sensitive to
climate change
than the rest of the world. When sunlight falls on snow and ice, it is
reflected back into space. But, when it falls on water, that energy is
absorbed. Since the 1970's, a third of the Arctic's ...
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Climate Change This Week: Wind Winds Up, Extinctions Explode, and More! | Mary Ellen Harte
... To Restore Peatlands - by
clearing plantations, a notable step for Asia Pulp & Paper. Peatland
forests are one of the best forms of carbon storage; their destruction
there fuels
climate change and major haze over Asia. Forests: the
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China, US to talk "clean coal" as industry struggles - Yahoo News (28 Additional Articles)
... going bankrupt. Proposals to hike coal royalties and lease
payments. And cheap natural gas squeezing out demand for coal. Those
woes are in addition to concerns over coal's role in
climate change.
Clean-coal technologies purport to capture the greenhouse gases that
contribute to global warming. But they're expensive, and efforts to
develop them for commercial use have foundered in the U.S. ...
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Hunger hits 1.5 million in Zimbabwe as maize production halves: WFP - Yahoo News (2 Additional Articles)
... editing by Tim Pearce. Please credit the Thomson Reuters
Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers
humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and
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BBC World Service - Outside Source, Carbon credit scheme questioned
... Stockholm's Environment Institute says that a UN scheme designed to tackle
climate change
through the trading of carbon credits may have increased carbon
emissions by 600 million tonnes. The BBC's environment correspondent
Matt McGrath has been investigating. ( Picture: A heavy traffic jam is
seen on the road at night in Beijing, China. Credit:
ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) ...
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Barack Obama accuses pro-fossil fuel businesses of sabotaging solar energy - Telegraph
... and trying to protect old
ways of doing business and standing in the way of the future.” The
strongly worded attack comes as President Obama is working to promote
his
climate change strategy – the most ambitious in American
history, which he hopes will be a defining part of his legacy. Whilst at
the same time promoting renewable fuels, the plan tries to impose ...
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... isn't just for the green
crowd any more, it's for the green-eyeshade crowd too." The president
compared those who say that shifting to cleaner energy will cripple the
economy with
climate change deniers who hold up snowballs in
February to argue that "somehow disproves decades of scientific data."
Fossil fuel and utility interests have been working at the state level
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