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Changing weather patterns threaten grassland sparrows
2016-06-07 23:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eurekalet: Two of North America's declining grassland songbirds may be particularly vulnerable to altered weather patterns caused by climate change, according to new research in The Condor: Ornithological Applications. Extreme heat waves have been known to kill adult birds, and droughts can cause birds to abandon nests or skip breeding altogether. To learn what species might be at greatest risk, Jessica Gorzo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her colleagues analyzed more than four decades of bird...
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Indonesia's forest fires threaten Sumatra's few remaining Orang Rimba
2016-06-07 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Our main goal is to preserve the forest according to the customary traditions of our people. If theres no forest, theres no Orang Rimba and the other way round, says Bepak Pengusai, head of customs in a rombong, or group area, belonging to the Orang Rimba, an aboriginal people in Sumatra. Indonesias devastating forest fires pose a serious threat to the Orang Rimba habitat. From July to late last year, the fires killed a dozen people and caused respiratory tract infections in half a million...
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Forest fires and logging threaten India's progress on climate goals
2016-06-07 05:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Since the end of April, fires in parts of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have destroyed or damaged 26,000 hectares of forests, and killed three people , officials say. The forest fires, touched off by timber smugglers, poachers and farmers, have been a particular problem this year as a result of high temperatures and low rainfall, experts say. Nationwide, the country is losing an average of a million hectares to fires each year, according to a 2014 report from the government's National Institute...
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VIDEO: Territory tensions threaten Philippines
2016-05-06 05:20:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
BBC's Asia Business Correspondent Karishma Vaswani reports on the upcoming presidential election in the Philippines.
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Water Wars Threaten America's Most Endangered Rivers
2016-04-12 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Conflict over water is intensifying, as shown by these 10 rivers at risk. Some solutions are in sight. The Apalachicola River is part of a drainage basin in the Southeast that is taxed by a growing population and conflict between states. What do two rivers in the Southeast and California have in common? Both are threatened by battles over their water. The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Basin in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida tops a new list as the most endangered river in the U.S. this...
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