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Disappearing glaciers: Now you see them, now you dont
2013-05-24 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Momentous change doesn`t always leave visual cues. A 2008 Obama looks much the same as a 2012 Obama (minus a few gray hairs and Benghazi wrinkles). In some ways, climate change is similar; we can`t exactly see villainous clouds of CO2 strangling the sky. But when it comes to glaciers, climate change leaves marks that can be seen from space. Our friends at GlacierWorks hope to document those scars. Respected mountaineer and GlacierWorks Executive Director David Breashears retraced the steps of...
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America's frogs and toads disappearing fast, study warns
2013-05-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Frogs, toads and salamanders have been in trouble for decades, but a new U.S. government study shows just how quickly many amphibians are disappearing from ponds and creeks across the United States. The average rate of decline for U.S. amphibians is about 3.7 percent a year, which may sound small but compounds over time, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Wednesday in the peer-reviewed online journal PLOS One. Biologists recognized an international amphibian crisis in 1989,...
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Safe drinking water disappearing fast in Bangladesh
2013-05-07 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The availability of safe drinking water, particularly in Bangladesh's hard to reach areas, is expected to worsen as the country experiences the effects of climate change, experts say. According to a study by the World Bank's water and sanitation programme (pdf), about 28 million Bangladeshis, or just over 20% of the population, are living in harsh conditions in the "hard-to-reach areas" that make up a quarter of the country's landmass. The study found that char land that emerges from riverbeds...
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The Case of the Disappearing Oil: How Much Oil Was Released in 2010 Pipeline Spill?
2013-05-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A key piece of data related to the biggest tar sands oil spill in U.S. history has disappeared from the Environmental Protection Agency's website, adding to confusion about the size of the spill and possibly reducing the fine that the company responsible for the accident would be required to pay. The July 2010 accident on an Enbridge Inc. pipeline dumped thousands of barrels of Canadian dilbit into the Kalamazoo River and surrounding wetlands. But almost three years and two federal investigations...
Bombay duck: iconic fish fast disappearing from city's coastal waters
2013-03-22 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bombay duck, or bombil as it is called locally, is one of Mumbai's polarising culinary experiences. This charmingly misnamed delicacy is actually a fish, whose pungent odour is part of that special love-it-or-hate it-Mumbai smell. It got its name in the days of the Raj, from being transported on an iconic train, the Bombay Daak, daak being the Hindi word for mail. The term was then bastardised to duck, which stuck. Now the fish is rapidly disappearing from the city's coastal waters, driven away...
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