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How Bacteria Figure Out When Corals Are Vulnerable
2013-12-14 03:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: A team of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the discovery of a mechanism that enables bacteria living in the world's oceans to attack and infect vulnerable corals. Coral reefs around the world are endangered by factors such as climate change, global warming and ocean acidification. The latter, in particular, is especially worrying, since it promotes coral bleaching. This phenomenon occurs when the algae that live in harmony with polyps inside corals...
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Philippines 'more & more vulnerable' disasters
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A spate of disasters in the Philippines that has caused substantial damage to agriculture, infrastructure and the economy, as well as a huge loss of lives, has underlined the need for stronger disaster management efforts and action to address climate change, experts said. In the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 5,000 people in the central Philippines and left many thousands more homeless, climate and disaster experts said disaster preparedness need to be scaled down to...
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Philippines: Filipino farmers most vulnerable to climate change
2013-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABS-CBN: Filipino farmers are highly vulnerable to climate change. Year in, year out, they see their crops mowed down by strong winds from storms that come during harvest season. Lack of irrigation infrastructure also makes them vulnerable to droughts. To increase the fighting chance of Filipino farmers against dangerous climate change impacts, Karen Tuason, a member of Task Force Mapalad, has started a project that focuses on young farmers. It also teaches them new farming methods and technologies to increase...
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This map shows why the Philippines is so vulnerable to climate change
2013-11-12 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Philippines is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change for two main reasons: geography and development. As my colleague Brad Plumer points out in an excellent piece on what the Philippines' experience with Typhoon Haiyan tells us about global efforts to adapt to climate change, a recent United Nations report identified the country as the third-most at-risk from climate change in the world, ranked behind the South Pacific island nations of Vanuatu and Tonga. But the Philippines...
Trees 'shield vulnerable species from climate change'
2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Forests with dense canopies create a microclimate that protects a variety of cold-adapted plant species from warming air temperatures, a study has shown. Researchers found plants that favoured cooler conditions fared better under dense canopies than in ones that were more open to the elements. They added that these conditions could be a "critical mechanism" in the conservation of forest plant diversity. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A team...
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