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How Saving Ecosystems Saves Lives
2014-02-04 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: One of the first things you realize about Borneo is how difficult it can be to land a plane. On my first trip there, our plane circled the provincial capital of Palangkaraya for a half hour before a window in the smoke opened long enough to land. Like many places in the tropics, Borneo is burning--and the consequences are widespread. Every year more than 2 million acres [almost 810,000 hectares] of Indonesian rainforest are destroyed. Between 2000 and 2010, nearly a quarter of Borneos diverse...
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Study cautions on sole focus on energy crop biomass yield; perennial grasslands deliver greater ecosystems services than corn
2014-01-14 15:35:34| Green Car Congress
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Deep ocean ecosystems not shielded from global warming impacts
2014-01-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Warming ocean temperatures will have a cascading effect reaching even the deepest parts of the ocean, researchers with the UK`s National Oceanography Centre warned in a new paper published in the scientific journal Global Change Biology. Their study quantifies future losses in deep-sea marine life, finding that marine life on the ocean floor will decline by up to 38 percent in the North Atlantic and by more than 5 per cent globally during the next century. These changes will be driven by a...
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Great Lakes Ecosystems Threatened by Food Scarcity
2013-12-12 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Declines of the food resources that feed lake organisms are likely causing dramatic changes in the Great Lakes, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study. USGS scientists and partners found that since 1998, water clarity has been increasing in a majority of the Great Lakes, while phytoplankton (the microscopic water organisms that feed all other animals), native invertebrates and prey fish have been declining. These food web changes fundamentally affect the ecosystems valuable resources...
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Which ecosystems are most vulnerable to climate change?
2013-09-17 00:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: New research highlights the world's most (and least) vulnerable ecosystems to climate change. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, is the first to combine anticipated climatic impacts with how degraded the ecosystem is due to human impacts, creating what scientists hope is a more accurate list of vulnerable regions. The most endangered regions include southern and southeast Asia, western and central Europe, eastern South America, and southern Australia. James Watson, lead author of the...
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