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Net News- The COP21 Edition

12/16/2015

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​195 countries agreed to the most significant international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions in history at a UN climate summit in Paris this week. The voluntary emissions cuts entailed in the accord will not prevent a 2°C increase in global temperatures, but represent a major step toward mitigating some effects of climate change. (Agreement text)
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A new study in PLOS Pathogens warns of the dire consequences that loom for the worldwide banana economy due to the likely spread of the TR4 strain of Panama disease from plantations in Southeast Asia.

Environmental scientists from Columbia University and the University of Buffalo question the global extent of the Medieval Warm Period in a new study in Science Advances. Dating boulders left behind by retreating glaciers in Greenland, the researchers conclude that the glaciers reached their Little Ice Age maxima during the MWP. The lead author said
, "If the Vikings traveled to Greenland when it was cool, it’s a stretch to say deteriorating climate drove them out."


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