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Coal Companies Threaten to Destroy Last Remaining Habitat of the Highly Endangered Pangolin
2016-07-06 20:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OneGreenPlanet: Let me introduce you to this adorable and kind of crazy looking mammal: the pangolin Pangolins are scaled mammals that are closely related to anteaters. These nocturnal creatures spend their nights eating ants and termites. Pangolins generally only give birth to one baby at a time. Their offspring, called pangopups, are very dependent on their mother and can be seen riding around on her tail when they are tired. Pangolins roll up into a ball when they are scared, stressed, or frightened. Indian...
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Why heat, droughts and dwindling glaciers threaten Albertas oil sands
2016-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global News: But three interconnected threats may make the river`s flow far smaller in the future than it is today: Drought The Athabasca River`s flow has been measured since the early 1950s and water allocation decisions are based on that data, says University of Regina geography professor David Sauchyn. But recent research shows that recent decades have been a wet period. The region`s deeper history shows long, severe droughts. Sauchyn studied rings on trees in the Athabasca`s headwaters, in Jasper...
Vast Peat Fires Threaten Health and Boost Global Warming
2016-07-02 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: As forest fires devastated Fort McMurray, Alberta, last month, a different sort of fire may have started beneath the ground. Peat, a carbon-rich soil created from partially decomposed, waterlogged vegetation accumulated over several millennia and the stuff that fueled Indonesias megafires last fall, also appears in the boreal forests that span Canada, Alaska and Siberia. With the intense heat from the Fort McMurray fires, theres a good chance the soil in the area could have been ignited, says...
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Two L.A.-area wildfires threaten to merge after forcing evacuations
2016-06-22 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Two rapidly growing wildfires burning a few miles apart in parched foothills just northeast of Los Angeles threatened to merge on Tuesday after forcing the evacuation of more than 700 people, officials said. The blazes came as California and other southwestern U.S. states baked in a heat wave. The so-called Fish Fire and the Reservoir Fire, which both broke out on Monday in the Angeles National Forest, more than doubled in size overnight and were entirely unconfined, the U.S. Forest Service...
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Australia: Floods set to peak across Australian state of Tasmania, threaten historic city
2016-06-08 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Flooding in Tasmania - Australia's southernmost state - will peak on Wednesday, the country's Bureau of Meteorology said, threatening one of the country's oldest cities. Australia's east coast was battered this week by heavy rains, bringing giant waves and cyclone-strength winds. As the weather system moved south, it struck Tasmania in recent days. Parts of Tasmania recorded about a month's worth of rain. The recent wild weather across Australia's east coast and Tasmania is likely to bring...
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