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Mass Extinction of Large Ice Age Mammals Linked to Climate-Induced Vegetation Changes

2014-02-06 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: It is generally accepted that climate change led to the extinction of the mammoth and other large mammals following the last Ice Age, but an international team of researchers behind a new report in the journal Nature claims to have found the smoking gun that pinpoints which of climate change's myriad effects led to the mass extinction of large mammals. By analyzing sediment samples from more than 10,000 years ago and the gut contents of permafrozen woolly rhinos, mammoths and other extinct Ice Age...

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Sugar consumption linked to heart disease death risk

2014-02-05 23:42:08| Biotech - Topix.net

Excessive consumption of added sugars in drinks, snacks and sweets is associated with an increased risk of dying from heart disease, according to a major US review published in JAMA Internal Medicine .

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California drought linked global warming

2014-01-31 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Summit Voice: While drought conditions have eased across parts of the U.S. in recent months, conditions have worsened in the far West, and particularly in California, where water shortages will have consequences spreading far beyond the state`s borders. And the western drought has global warming fingerprints all over, according to four researchers who discussed the links between climate change and drought at a teleconference organized by Climate Nexus, a communications group focused on highlighting the wide-ranging...

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