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Chinas Coal Peak Hailed as Turning Point

2016-07-31 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: The global battle against climate change has passed a historic turning point with China's huge coal burning finally having peaked, according to senior economists. They say the moment may well be a significant milestone in the course of the Anthropocene, the current era in which human activity dominates the world's environment. China is the world's biggest polluter and more than tripled its coal burning from 2000 to 2013, emitting billions of tonnes of climate-warming carbon dioxide. But its...

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Climate change may be turning gulls into cannibals

2016-07-24 02:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Kitsap Sun: Jim Hayward slips on a hard hat and pops open an umbrella before stepping into a storm of angry gulls. Hayward, a seabird biologist based on Protection Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is making his evening rounds through the largest gull nesting colony in the Puget Sound region. He's been monitoring this site since 1987, so he's used to the shrieking, the divebombing, the frequent splatterings of gull poop, and the pecking at his head, hands and feet. What he's not accustomed to is the...

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Thanks to climate change, for better or worse, the Arctic is turning green

2016-07-03 03:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: In June, NASA scientists provided a visualization of a startling climate change trend the Earth is getting greener, as viewed from space, especially in its rapidly warming northern regions. And this is presumably occurring as more carbon dioxide in the air, along with warmer temperatures and longer growing seasons, makes plants very, very happy. Now, new research in Nature Climate Change not only reinforces the reality of this trend which is already provoking debate about the overall climate...

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Repeat Oil Spills Turning Peruvian Amazon into 'Sacrifice Zone' for Big Oil

2016-06-29 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Common Dreams: Less than six months after two horrific oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon devastated Indigenous communities and the local ecosystem, yet another spill in the region has been reported. "Somehow virtually none of the profits generated by the oil industry over decades is available to ensure that Amazonian communities don't have to watch their primary sources of livelihoods--the river, the forest--become irrevocably polluted by spills." --Andrew Miller, Amazon WatchOn Friday afternoon, a leak was...

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