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Climate Change Cause Of Coqui Frog's Altered Calls
2014-04-16 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Changes in the Puerto Rican climate over the past three decades have caused small but significant changes to the coqui frog, the territory`s national animal. UCLA biologists have found that not only have male coquis become smaller, but their mating call has also become shorter and higher pitched. Authored by Peter Narins, UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology and of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Sebastiaan Meenderink, a UCLA physics researcher, the study examined...
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Publix, Darden seek to change Obamacare requirements
2014-04-16 16:22:15| Grocery - Topix.net
Darden Restaurants and Publix Super Markets are pushing for federal legislation to change the Obamacare full-time work standard from 30 hours a week to 40 hours.
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Bombshell: Study Ties Epic California Drought, Frigid East To Manmade Climate Change
2014-04-16 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Natural variability alone cannot explain the extreme weather pattern that has driven both the record-setting California drought and the cooler weather seen in the Midwest and East this winter, a major new study finds. We`ve reported before that climate scientists had predicted a decade ago that warming-driven Arctic ice loss would lead to worsening drought in California. In particular, they predicted it would lead to a "blocking pattern" that would shift the jet stream (and the rain it could bring)...
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Climate change and deforestation increasing forest fire risk in Amazon
2014-04-16 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A combination of climate change and deforestation is making the Amazon rainforest increasingly vulnerable to devastating forest fires, a new study has said. The Amazon is one of the most important ecosystems on the planet. It is estimated that about 10% of all known species live in the 5.5 million sq km rainforest. The region is also called the lungs of the Earth, because its trees remove considerable amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, therefore lessening climate change. Despite its...
Gut capacity limits bird's ability to adapt to rapid climate change
2014-04-16 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: An ornithologist who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate. And he believes that most other animals are also limited in a similar way. Scott McWilliams, URI professor of natural resources science, says that spare capacity -- the extent to which animals can modify their physiology to deal with ecological...
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