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Researchers Investigate Economic Impact of Climate Change on Farms
2016-06-20 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - An interdisciplinary team from the University of Illinois recently investigated the effects of climate change on farmland values in the Southwestern United States.
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Obama touts wonders of national parks while talking climate change
2016-06-19 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: With Yosemite Falls in the background, President Obama told an audience during the weekend that climate change is already impacting Americas national parks. Make no mistake, climate change is no longer just a threat its already a reality, he said from a lectern near Sentinel Bridge in Yosemite National Park. The first familys trip to the nations fourth most-visited park with about 4 million visitors a year came as the National Park Service is approaching its 100th anniversary in...
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President Obama visits Yosemite, discusses threat of climate change
2016-06-19 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: President Barack Obama spoke in front of one of Yosemite National Park's picturesque waterfalls on a sun-splashed Saturday touting the importance of America's parks, but cautioning the threat of climate change is real and affecting the planet now. The President and first family are visiting Yosemite to mark the 100th anniversary of the National Park system. The Obama's visited Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico on Friday. In a speech with a small group of onlookers in front of the falls,...
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Climate change is a huge threat to our national parks
2016-06-19 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: The director of the National Park Service, John Jarvis, recently called climate disruption the single greatest threat to the integrity of the parks that has ever been experienced. And this is causing a wholesale rethink of planning for the future of the parks. We're seeing all kinds of climate change impacts throughout the system, Jarvis says. Some of the most obvious, for example, are sea level rise impacts on coastal parks where we're seeing erosion of cultural resources, of beaches and these...
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Villages most affected by climate change
2016-06-19 10:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News Miner: Alaska Native villages face some of the highest climate change risks in the nation due to their eroding and flooding shorelines, limited resources, impacts of colonization and strong connection to traditional lands, waters and wildlife they do not wish to leave behind. Some Alaska coastal villages are expected to be underwater as early as the 2020s. Every article that appears on this subject evokes fierce debate about whether saving these communities merit spending hundreds of millions of dollars...
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