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Winds of political change shifting on climate issues in Colorado, experts say
2016-07-07 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Real Vail: Winds of political change shifting on climate issues in Colorado, experts say Voters dismayed climate change not a higher priority for presidential candidates Coloradans care about climate change, surveys say, and analysts point out that politicians seeking congressional seats or the White House ignore the issue at their own peril in this critical swing state. The Guardian newspaper this week produced a report stating voters, especially young ones, are increasingly dismayed that climate...
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Climate Change Claims a Lake, and a Way of Life
2016-07-07 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The water receded and the fish died. They surfaced by the tens of thousands, belly-up, and the stench drifted in the air for weeks. The birds that had fed on the fish had little choice but to abandon Lake Poopó, once Bolivias second-largest but now just a dry, salty expanse. Many of the Uru-Murato people, who had lived off its waters for generations, left as well, joining a new global march of refugees fleeing not war or persecution, but climate change. The lake was our mother and our father,...
Climate change is spreading Lyme disease
2016-07-07 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Week: Nymphs questing through the forest. The phrase conjures up images of a scene from Game of Thrones. But encountering a real nymph on its quest offers a potentially harmful brush with climate change. Immature deer ticks are called questing nymphs. They now inhabit a wide swath of North American forests, but they didn't always. During early summer, their quest is for blood. The season now starts earlier and lasts longer than it did in the past, which is good for the ticks. But it's bad for humans,...
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Climate change plagues Madagascar's poor: 'The water rose so fast'
2016-07-07 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Angenie, 21, lives in a country many people think of as an ecological paradise, home to a unique diversity of plants and animals. Yet within the past three years she has witnessed droughts and floods so severe she has had to flee her home to escape them twice. Angenie grew up in southern Madagascar where, as a child, she remembers things being green. But for the past few years a severe drought, blamed on the devastating effects of El Nio, has gripped the southern region. The land got dry,...
How Fruit Fly's Fascinating Ability To Adapt To Climate Change Can Help Us Survive
2016-07-07 08:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: How the fruit flies adapt to change in temperature might give us more ideas how we can survive the rapidly changing climate. Fruit flies may be small but they can do big things for climate change research. A recent study revealed that the fruit flies' ability to drastically change body temperature to adapt to the changing environment can help in further understanding how climate change affects insects and their habitat. Canadian Press reported that Heath MacMillan, together with researchers...
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