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Climate change making birds migrate earlier

2013-11-13 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Press Association: Climate change has altered the nesting patterns of birds resulting in earlier migrations, experts have found. It has long been suspected that birds are migrating earlier each year to cope with changes in their environment, but research by the University of East Anglia has found that the phenomenon is more complex. Individual birds migrate like clockwork arriving at the same time each year, according to the study. However, younger birds are migrating earlier because of changes to nesting and...

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Rovio's Angry Birds' Entertainment Empire

2013-10-14 22:41:10| Toys - Topix.net

According to a market report by DFC Intelligence, Online Game Market Forecasts , worldwide revenue from online games is projected to grow to $35 billion in 2017 from $19 billion in 2011.

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Gas flare draws thousands of birds to their deaths, and ignites questions

2013-10-12 15:34:58| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EnergyWire: The conditions that night were a perfect storm -- foggy, low cloud cover, an early fall evening that was right for flight. How many birds flew past the flare on a recent September night at the Canaport LNG plant, north of Maine in New Brunswick, Canada, isn't known. But managers at the liquefied natural gas import facility estimate that about 7,500 migrating birds, mostly small songbirds, were drawn into the flare and died from its heat. The issue of wind energy-related bird deaths has received...

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