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Terns Flee Warming Temps in Epic Migration to Alaska
2016-09-25 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Eyebrows would be raised if American crocodiles, found on the southern tip of Florida, decided to relocate to New York's Fifth Avenue or Moroccan camels suddenly joined the tourist throng outside Buckingham Palace in London. Yet this is the scale of species shift that appears to be under way in Alaska. In July, researchers in Cape Krusenstern national monument on the north-west coast of Alaska were startled to discover a nest containing Caspian terns on the gravely beach of a lagoon. The birds...
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Global warming: Greenland ice melting 7 per cent faster than thought
2016-09-22 06:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: Greenland lost nearly 2,700 gigatonnes of ice from 2003-2013, 7.6 per cent more than previously thought, a new study has found. According to researchers from Ohio State University in the US, the hotspot that feeds Icelands active volcanoes has softened the mantle rock beneath Greenland in a way that ultimately distorted their calculations for ice loss in the Greenland ice sheet. This caused them to underestimate the melting by about 20 billion metric tonnes or 20 gigatonnes per year. That means...
Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky
2016-09-18 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthout: How serious of an issue is climate change? Does global warming really threaten human civilization? Can it be reversed, or is it already late? In this exclusive interview for Truthout, two scholars, Noam Chomsky, one of the world's leading public intellectuals, and Graciela Chichilnisky, a renowned economist and climate change authority who wrote and designed the carbon market of the Kyoto Protocol, concur on a few key points. First of all, global warming and climate change constitute the greatest...
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Global warming making Calif. wildfire season longer, more severe
2016-09-14 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: As Southern California firefighters battled the Blue Cut Fire last month, there was nothing they could do to fend off an unfortunate reality: Global warming is already lengthening wildfire season and increasing the likelihood of extreme fires across the West. And conditions will only get worse in the coming decades. California just suffered through its hottest summer on record: The Golden State's average temperature from June through August was more than 3 degrees above the 20th century average,...
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Leonardo DiCaprio's global warming doc is the most depressing world tour ever
2016-09-10 09:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Verge: Celebrities are keen on adopting righteous causes, but few are as vocal as Leonardo DiCaprio about his quest to save the planet from ecological collapse. "I am consumed by this," DiCaprio told Rolling Stone in a profile earlier this year. "There isnt a couple of hours a day where Im not thinking about it." With Before the Flood, DiCaprio is asking us to sample his daily two-hour burden. Directed by Fisher Stevens, Before the Flood documents DiCaprio as he jet-sets from Greenland, to Indonesia,...
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