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'Devastated': scientists too late to captive breed mammal lost to climate change
2016-06-29 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Bramble Cay melomys has become more famous in extinction than it ever was in life. A mouse-like rodent, the melomys amazingly survived on a 3.6 hectare grass-covered cay (a low-lying island in a coral reef) in Australias Great Barrier Reef like a ratty Robinson Crusoe for thousands of years. There, it thrived off just a few plant species until human-caused climate change--in the form of rising sea levels and increasing inundations of sea water on the low-lying island--wiped it off the planet....
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Tasmania bushfires leave World Heritage Area devastated in pictures
2016-02-02 01:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Pictures from Tasmanias central plateau, shot by wilderness photographer Dan Broun, show the extraordinary damage wrought by more than a week of bushfires following lightning strikes in Australias southernmost state on 13 January. The world heritage area was home to a range of unique alpine flora including pencil pines, king billy pines and cushion plants, some more than 1,000 years old. Now more than 10,000ha of land has been incinerated, and ecologist say that, unlike eucalyptus trees, the ancient...
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Vanuatu devastated by powerful Pacific cyclone
2015-03-14 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: DOZENS of people were feared dead after a 168mph cyclone tore through Vanuatu in what could be one of the worst disasters in Pacific history. There were unconfirmed reports of 44 deaths and entire villages being destroyed in the north east of the 80 island chain, the United Nations said. Unicef estimated that at least half the archipelagos 267,000 population had been hit - including 54,000 children. Cyclone Pams winds pounded Vanuatu, north east of Australia, peaking around 1am today (2pm...
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Animal shelter devastated by loss of free pet food
2014-11-05 23:38:18| Food - Topix.net
Davidson said that for nearly six years, the Del Monte Foods distribution center in Lathrop, Calif., had provided between two and four pallets of dog and cat food weekly at no charge because the bags were torn, misprinted or had other blemishes not affecting the quality of the food inside. "They didn't give us a whole lot of explanation because it actually came from upper management, I guess, " Davidson said.
Washington state community devastated by mudslide could face floods
2014-10-23 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Washington state community devastated by a mudslide that killed 43 people in March was bracing for its first rainy season since the disaster and the threat of flooding from a river that changed course as a result of it, officials said on Thursday. A rain-soaked hillside collapsed above the north fork of the Stillaguamish River on March 22, unleashing a torrent of mud that buried a community near Oso, 55 miles (89 km) northeast of Seattle. The risk of flooding remains a concern for hundreds...
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