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Plants that regulate sprouting tackle climate change well
2014-04-20 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: lants with the ability to regulate the timing of germination in response to environmental cues are more likely to spin off new species and are better at dealing with weather threats from climate change. Plants whose seeds put off sprouting until conditions are more certain give rise to more species, a study said. Plants whose seeds have since lost the ability may be prone to extinction under future climate change, especially if the timing of sprouting is no longer in tune with their environment,...
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At-Risk Cities May Help Drive Climate Change Solutions
2014-04-20 06:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: It is already taking shape as the 21st century urban nightmare: a big storm hits a city like Shanghai, Mumbai, Miami or New York, knocking out power supply and waste treatment plants, washing out entire neighborhoods and marooning the survivors in a toxic and foul-smelling swamp. The rate of sea level rise is three or four times faster than the global average on the U.S. East Coast, which is also a "hotspot," with cities, beaches and wetlands exposed to flooding. Now the world's leading scientists...
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Al Gore On Climate Change Crisis
2014-04-19 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTechnica: Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a powerful address to a packed house at the Stan Sheriff Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa this week. Environmentally, Gore is most famous, perhaps, for his 2006 speaking tour and subsequent documentary called An Inconvenient Truth, but as opening speaker Senator Brian Schatz pointed out, Mr. Gore has been a climate change and environmental champion throughout his long career. Schatz, the current U.S. Senator from Hawaii, said he was inspired by Earth...
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Climate change increasing massive wildfires in West
2014-04-19 17:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Massive wildfires are on the increase in the Western USA due to rising temperatures and worsening drought from climate change, and the trend could continue in the decades to come, new research suggests. Overall, the number of large wildfires increased by a rate of seven fires a year from 1984 to 2011, while the total area damaged by fire increased at a rate of nearly 90,000 acres per year, according to the study, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical...
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Climate change impact can be averted; nations need to act fast: IPCC
2014-04-19 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Unseasonal rains, freak snowstorms and droughts because of global warming may be becoming the new normal but now the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its recent report has offered a glimmer of hope. The severe impacts of climate change can be avoided or minimised provided countries act collectively and quickly. Besides, it will not cost the earth to save the earth. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions would have minimal impact on growth0.06 per cent of GDP. However, there is a caveat,...
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