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Climate Change Will Damage Penguin Populations By 60% This Century

2016-07-03 12:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

HNGN: Climate change is affecting Antarctica's penguin population, which is reducing rapidly, especially in regions where the impact of global warming is felt the most. The population is expected to plummet by 60 percent at the end of this century. The main reason for their plummeting population is the warming of sea water. Even though the penguins cannot survive extremely cold temperatures, the warmer places too cannot let them live, explain experts, relying on global climate model projections and...

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Fossil fuel use in US is at its lowest percentage in over a century

2016-07-02 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ars Technica: With the 4th of July weekend about to begin, the US Energy Information Administration decided to look back to our nation's founding. So it plotted the country's energy use starting from 1776. Most of the result isn't a surprise: biomass had a long run before fossil fuels took over and stayed on top. But recent years have seen the biggest change since nuclear was added to the mix. Biomass spent nearly a century on top of the US energy mix before being displaced by coal, although it never went above...

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Penguin population could drop 60 percent by end of the century

2016-06-29 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: The geologic record shows that as glaciers expanded and covered Adélie breeding habitats with ice, penguin colonies were abandoned. When the glaciers melted during warming periods, this warming positively affected the Adélie penguins, allowing them to return to their rocky breeding grounds. But now, University of Delaware scientists and colleagues report that this beneficial warming may have reached its tipping point. In a paper published today (June 29) in Scientific Reports, the researchers...

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Dow Commends Congressional Passage Of The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety For The 21st Century Act

2016-06-13 06:20:32| chemicalonline Home Page

The Dow Chemical Company commends the U.S. Congress on the final passage of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 2576). This critically important legislation will strengthen and modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), our nation’s primary means for regulating chemicals

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