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Warmer years linked to more malaria in tropical highlands
2014-03-14 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: People in densely populated highlands of Africa and South America who have so far been protected from malaria by cooler temperatures may be seeing more of the disease as the climate changes, according to a study in Science (6 March). Mountainous regions with relatively cold climates that are unsuitable for the malaria parasite and the mosquitoes that transmit but there have been indications, for example from modelling studies, that with climate change this protection will wear off. Now scientists...
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Climate change puts ancestral farming indicators under stress Bolivia's highlands
2014-03-02 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For centuries, farmers in the fragile ecosystems of the high Andes have looked to the behavior of plants and animals to figure out what crops to grow and when. If reeds dried up in the late summer, rainless weather lay ahead, they believed. If the Andean fox made a howling appearance, abundant rains were thought sure to come. But increasingly erratic weather that scientists attribute to global warming is rendering their age-old methods less reliable, endangering harvests in a region where life...
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Timberline Announces Hard Rock Operating Permit Update for Butte Highlands Gold Project
2014-02-17 19:02:36| Waste Management - Topix.net
COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO -- -- 02/17/14 -- Timberline Resources Corporation announced today that the Montana Department of Environmental Quality has provided an updated schedule anticipated for completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Butte Highlands Joint Venture 's proposed underground gold mine in the Highland Mountains south ... (more)
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Rise in malaria forecast for tropical highlands
2014-02-14 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: More people may contract malaria in the tropical highlands of Africa, Asia and South America as global warming makes the climate in these areas more suitable for the disease's transmission, according to a study. While the study focuses on the effects of global warming, it notes that further studies will be needed to account for other factors that may influence the disease's spread, including economic development, changes in human population patterns and adaptations in the mosquitoes that transmit...
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Erin Giberti, Highlands Ranch realtor, arrested after failed murder-suicide with her two kids
2013-12-20 20:06:14| Real Estate - Topix.net
Online, Highlands Ranch's Erin Giberti comes across as chipper and upbeat -- an energetic real estate agent for Re/Max and a loving mom of two kids whose praises she sings on Facebook and Pinterest.
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