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Climate change, more driving time, less fishing time

2015-11-12 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bangor Daily News: Only an appreciation of nature as a collection of specific threatened habitats, rather than as an abstract thing that is dying, can avert a complete denaturing of the world. This observation by writer Jonathan Franzen nicely captures the challenge of understanding climate changes impacts on nature. As Franzen also notes, climate change is so big that its everybodys -- and nobodys -- problem. To initiate change, we need to understand its impacts on a human scale. In an effort to communicate...

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Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict

2015-05-09 05:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes. But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a political solution to an increasingly intractable conflict, its underlying causes in a fatal convergence of energy, climate and economic factors remain little understood. The UN high commissioner for human rights has offered a conservative under-estimate of the death...

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Study: Climate change driving spread of crop pests

2013-09-02 11:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: The potential impact of climate change on food production has again been highlighted with the publication of a new study warning that rising temperatures are enabling the spread of crop pests into new latitudes. The paper from scientists at the University of Exeter and the University of Oxford, published in the journal Nature Climate Change this week, calculates that certain crop pests are heading towards the North and South poles at a rate of three kilometres a year, expanding the area where...

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Climate Change Driving More Active El Nio Cycles, Study Says

2013-07-01 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: A new analysis of tree-ring data indicates that the climate cycle known as the El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been more active during the latter part of the 20th century than at any other time during the past seven centuries, suggesting that global warming is affecting this climate phenomenon. Using data from 2,222 tree-ring chronologies from the tropics and mid-latitudes in both the northern and southern Hemispheres, a team of scientists determined that ENSO-related behavior in the late...

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