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Obama to protect vast Pacific Ocean areas: report
2014-06-17 14:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama will announce efforts to protect areas of the Pacific Ocean controlled by the United States from overfishing and environmental damage, the Washington Post said on Tuesday. The measure is likely to please environmental advocates but annoy political opponents, who accuse Obama of conducting an imperial presidency by frequently resorting to unilateral actions without seeking congressional approval. Obama's proposal, due to go into effect later this year, would create a vast...
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Obama to order ocean protections with executive powers, Kerry says
2014-06-16 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US secretary of state, John Kerry, says saving the world's oceans was a vital security issue, and has urged leaders at an international summit to take immediate action on overfishing and pollution. Kerry, speaking at the start of the summit, said humans had caused enormous damage to the oceans, jeopardising the food security of three billion people on the planet. The two-day conference includes officials from 80 countries, and is the most visible effort to date by the Obama administration...
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Study discovers link between climate change and ocean currents over six million years
2014-06-12 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Scientists have discovered a relationship between climate change and ocean currents over the past six million years after analysing an area of the Atlantic near the Strait of Gibraltar, according to research published today in the journal Science. An expedition of scientists, jointly led by Dr Javier Hernandez-Molina, from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, examined core samples from the seabed off the coast of Spain and Portugal which provided proof of shifts...
Global Warming to Triple Frequency Drought, Floods Along Indian Ocean
2014-06-11 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: The frequency of extreme forms of a climate cycle that can cause devastating droughts and flood events from Indonesia to India to Kenya, may triple in the coming decades, according to a new study published Wednesday. The study, published in the journal Nature, ties manmade global warming to shifts in the behavior of a naturally-occurring climate cycle, known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Like the Pacific Ocean, which gives rise to El Nio and La Nia events, the Indian Ocean has its own inherent...
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Extreme weather to occur more often around Indian Ocean rim
2014-06-11 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: A double whammy of weird ocean behavior washed over the world in 1997. The Pacific Ocean had already succumbed to an exceptionally strong El Nio, and then the Indian Ocean was hit fiercely by El Nios close cousin: the so-called Indian Ocean Dipole. Surface waters off the coast of Indonesia cooled and the oceans predominant westerly winds reversed, leading to catastrophic weather. Fires raged across a drought-stricken Indonesia, and floods across east African nations killed thousands. Climate...
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