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Arctic Warming Is Shrinking This Adorable Shorebird

2016-05-12 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: The migratory red knot is getting smaller due to climate change, making it harder for the threatened birds to find the best food. The red knot shorebird is a tough, long-distance flier that migrates yearly from the Arctic into the Southern Hemisphere and back. For decades, the bird has been at risk because its food sources, such as crab eggs, have declined in the feeding grounds along its migratory route. Now an alarming discovery by an international team of scientists, published this week...

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Shrinking Arctic bird suffers double hit from global warming: study

2016-05-12 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Red knots, a type of bird that makes one of the longest annual migrations, are shrinking because climate change in their Arctic nesting grounds makes life harder during their winters in Africa, scientists say. Snows in Arctic Russia now melt earlier in spring and many red knot chicks hatch too late for the annual peak of insect food spurred by the thaw, according to their report on Thursday, one of the first to link the impact of warming to a single species. That food shortage means the shorebirds,...

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Rare Seal Pups Stranded on Shrinking Arctic Ice

2016-05-09 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Mikhail Verevkin points his spyglass toward the Gulf of Finland and squints into the distance. "One, two, three. ..." He counts 19 animals lounging on rocks before looking up. They are all gray seals. The Baltic ringed seal is nowhere to be found. It's April 20, the time of year when seal scientists like Verevkin, who works for the Russian Academy of Sciences, fly over the Baltic Sea to count numbers of the Baltic ringed seal, a marine mammal that, unlike the gray seal, is totally dependent...

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This week in beer & cider, featuring Anheuser-Busch InBev's troublesome Q1, Molson Coors' hopes for MillerCoors and the shrinking world beer category in Europe

2016-05-06 16:03:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

Here's a round-up of this week's top stories in the global beer & cider categories. We also have similar round-ups for soft drinks & bottled water and spirits & wine.

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