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Climate change linked to Zika outbreak
2016-02-07 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Straits Times: Climate change may have fuelled the outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Latin America and made it harder for developing countries to manage future epidemics, researchers said. Record-high temperatures last year in Brazil, Ecuador and other South American countries created ideal conditions for the mosquito that transmits the Zika virus, which is suspected of causing birth defects, scientists said in a conference call with reporters on Friday. The researchers, who cautioned that any...
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Bee Decline Linked To European Bees and Human Trading, Study Finds
2016-02-05 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Bee populations have taken a hard hit, and it appears humans are to blame for the recent decline. Researchers from the Universities of Exeter and California, Berkeley, have discovered that a deadly bee disease that originated in European populations has spread worldwide as the result of importing infected honeybees. What's worse: bee colonies are suffering from what researchers call a "double blow." The dreaded Deformed Wing Virus paired with Varroa destructor mites, which feed on bee larva, has...
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Oklahoma approves $1.4m funding for research on earthquakes linked to wastewater disposal wells
2016-01-29 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Oklahoma has approved the use of nearly $1.4m from the state emergency fund to carry out research on earthquakes that are believed to be linked to wastewater disposal wells serving oil and gas operations.
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Warming Waters Linked to Northeast Seagrass Die-offs
2016-01-27 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Since Paula and Len Boutin moved into their house on Massachusetts's Weweantic River more than a decade ago, they've ambled down to their dock to sample and test the water hundreds of times. "We just feel we're helping out the environment,' Len said. The river drains into Buzzards Bay, where eelgrass holds sand in place on bay floors and shelters young finfish, scallop larvae and other wildlife. But the eelgrass is wasting away -- and new analysis of two decades of summertime monitoring by the...
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Andersons linked to a first for city
2016-01-23 15:23:38| Agriculture - Topix.net
Descendants of Dunedin's first European child born in the area celebrated with a family reunion in Waihola last weekend. Reporter Rhys Chamberlain caught up with the family of John Anderson jun, born in Andersons Bay in 1846.
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