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Long lives, big impacts: human life expectancy linked to extinction
2014-04-15 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Since the arrival of Homo sapiens, other species have been going extinct at an unprecedented rate. Most scientists now agree that extinction rates are between 100 and 1000 times greater than before humans existed. Working out what is driving these extinctions is fiendishly complicated, but a new study by scientists from the University of California, Davis and the Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit suggests that human life expectancy may be partly to blame. Increased life expectancy...
Ohio Earthquakes Linked To Fracking, A First For Region
2014-04-11 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquakes in a geologic formation deep under the Appalachians to hydraulic fracturing, leading the state to issue new permit conditions Friday in certain areas that are among the nation's strictest. A state investigation of five small tremors last month in the Youngstown area, in the Appalachian foothills, found the injection of sand and water that accompanies hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Utica Shale may have increased pressure on...
Procter & Gamble, Cargill pledge cut deforestation linked to palm oil
2014-04-08 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Cargill today announced new measures to cut deforestation from their palm oil supply chains. P&G (NYSE:PG), a consumer products giant that owns brands like Head & Shoulders and Oil of Olay, pledged to establish traceability of palm oil to supplier mills by the end of 2015. The policy commits it to eliminate deforestation from its supply chain by 2020, the same target adopted by the Consumer Goods Forum - a network of 400 of the world's largest companies whose combined...
Oklahoma earthquakes linked to oil and gas exploration
2014-04-07 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Seismologists with the Oklahoma Geological Survey have linked minor earthquakes that occurred in Oklahoma, US, over the weekend to shale gas exploration in the region.
Temperature Linked Food-Webs in Arctic Ecosystems
2014-03-27 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A comprehensive analysis of Arctic wildlife and the food-web system in place reveals that temperature has a surprising and important effect on the food chain, according to new research. Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, an international team of biologists reports their field study of Arctic wildlife and food-webs in Canada, Greenland, Russia and Norway. "Temperature has an unexpectedly important effect on food-web structure," Denmark's Aarhus University reported. "While the relationship...
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