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Rise in ocean acidity makes fish anxious, study finds
2013-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Ocean acidification could alter the behavior of fish and make them more anxious, a new study says. The finding came in an experiment by researchers interested in the neurological effects of the shift in the chemistry of seawater that is happening as the ocean takes up carbon dioxide that has built up in the Earth's atmosphere from human activity. In a laboratory, scientists put one group of young rockfish, a common species along the California coast, in normal seawater and put another group...
Climate Change Is Creating Anxious Fish
2013-12-06 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: Seems like humans aren't the only ones anxious because of climate change. Beneath the briny waves could lie legions of stressed-out fish, whose bodies aren't up to coping with the ongoing acidification of the oceans. Scientists have known for some time that the lowering of the oceanic pH level -- the result of humans pumping gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere -- isn't great for marine life. The CO2 reduces the amount of calcium-based minerals in the water, creating difficulties for animals with...
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The Chinese are anxious over the future
2013-11-03 18:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Traveling here last week after America's partial government shutdown and near-default, I expected to encounter a surge of confidence in China's inevitable, eventual emergence as the world's greatest power. That is not what I found. Some people here do take pleasure in the travails of democracy in the world's greatest hectorer on the subject. Some shed crocodile tears about America's decline and President Obama's failure to attend a recent summit in Asia. But whatever people's views of America,...
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All of CDC returns to work after anxious shutdown
2013-10-18 02:33:38| Biotech - Topix.net
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was standing amid the rain and traffic, dressed in a dark blue suit and tie, greeting motorists as they drove into the CDC's headquarters campus.
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Americans anxious, irritated as gov't shuts down
2013-10-01 13:20:47| Energy - Topix.net
The pilot reported no mechanical trouble with a private jet from Idaho before it crashed in a hangar and burst into flames while landing at a Southern California airport, federal investigators said.
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