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This remote region of India is becoming a model climate resilience

2015-07-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ensia: Climate change is inherently a global phenomenon, but changing weather patterns are more often felt at the regional and local level. And as the United Nations and others have reported, the impacts of global warming will disproportionately impact those living in developing countries with adaptation costs in the range of US$70 billion to US$100 billion per year by 2050. The video above by Chintan Gohil, an India-based photographer and filmmaker, takes viewers to one such location: Ladakh, a region...

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Resilience: A New Conservation Strategy for a Warming World

2015-07-13 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: The San Francisco Bay was once one of the richest estuaries in North America. Almost completely enclosed and protected from the open ocean, and with more than 200 freshwater creeks feeding into it, it was a fertile refuge for young salmon, halibut, sturgeon, anchovy, and smelt. It was lined with some 200,000 acres of tidal marsh, and the connected Sacramento Delta doubled that, creating a region so rich and productive it was known as the Everglades of the West. By the middle of the 20th century,...

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Fossils indicate human activities have disturbed ecosystem resilience

2015-07-13 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] CORVALLIS, Ore. - A collection of fossilized owl pellets in Utah suggests that when the Earth went through a period of rapid warming about 13,000 years ago, the small mammal community was stable and resilient, even as individual species changed along with the habitat and landscape. By contrast, human-caused changes to the environment since the late 1800s have caused an enormous drop in biomass and “energy flow” in this same community, researchers reported…

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23/09/2015 - Business Resilience Forum -September 2015

2015-07-10 13:09:39| BIFM Events

Our next Business Resilience Forum takes place on 23rd September in Peterborough. This half day event (with an optional workshop with lunch) provides facilities managers with presentations from expert speakers and networking opportunities with their peers

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