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How Fast Will Rising Temperatures Shrink CO2 Storage?
2015-06-19 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: As human activity has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, carbon cycling has helped to buffer against some of the greenhouse gas's warming effects. But over time, if carbon dioxide levels continue to increase, the planet will become progressively less able to sequester CO2 in the soil or deep within the ocean. Scott Doney, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, compares the scenario to an open faucet flowing into a basin (of air),...
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Rising sea levels and temperatures ahead for NYC
2015-02-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: By the year 2100, the city is likely to be hotter and rainier, with climbing sea levels putting coastal regions more at risk of floods and storms like deadly Hurricane Sandy, according to a report from the New York City Panel on Climate Change released today. "Hurricane Sandy certainly highlighted a lot of our vulnerabilities to these kinds of risks, certainly around sea level rise and coastal storms," Director of the Mayors Office of Recovery and Resiliency Daniel Zarrilli said at an afternoon...
Arctic Update: Temperatures Rising Faster Anywhere Else on Earth
2014-12-18 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: As scientists continue to monitor the Arctic for changes in the face of climate change, they recently discovered some staggering new information - temperatures in the region are rising twice as fast as anywhere else on Earth, a new NOAA-led report says. Global warming may be on a natural pause, but not according to the Arctic. Among the observations released Wednesday in the Arctic Report Card 2014, researchers found that Arctic snow cover, which has been measured since 1967, fell below the...
Rising Temperatures Could Stall the Fight Against Disease
2014-11-03 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Water is one of the most common agents of illness, especially in highly populated regions with shared utilities. Now, a new report details how rising water temperatures across the globe could result in the increased prevalence of water-borne illnesses, making the prevention of disease far more difficult. That's at least according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change that details how China in particular could severely suffer from rising surface water temperatures. Nature World...
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Ozone + Rising Temperatures = Problems for Food Security
2014-07-31 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A new study shows that interactions between increasing temperature and air pollution can be quite significant when it comes to addressing food security. Conducted in part by researchers at MIT, a study looked in detail at global production of four leading food crops rice, wheat, corn, and soy. It predicts that effects will vary considerably from region to region, and that some of the crops are much more strongly affected by one or the other of the factors: For example, wheat is very sensitive...
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