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Climate change blamed for depletion of water level in Dumba lake
2016-06-18 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
My Republica: The existence of the mesmerizing Dumba lake located at Jomsom 9 is in peril. The rise in temperature, natural disasters and other human causes are being blamed for the depletion of water levels in the lake and deformation of soil in the surrounding areas. The lake situated at around 3,500 meters above sea level can be reached at an hour's walk from the district headquarters of Jomsom. The lake which is 400 meters in length and one hundred meter wide is assumed to be 10 meters deep. The water...
In Yosemite, Obama presses climate change during pitch for national parks
2016-06-18 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama pressed lawmakers to do more to prevent climate change as he made a pitch for the 100th-year anniversary of the national park system Saturday. Speaking in front of the dramatic vision of the 2,400-foot Yosemite Falls, Obama cited his presidential forebears, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, for preserving Yosemite and creating the National Park Service, respectively. "It is a true expression of our democracy," Obama said in his brief remarks in front of a small crowd and...
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How Climate Change Unleashed Humans Upon South Americas Megabeasts
2016-06-18 21:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: South America was once a land of giants. Its plains and forests were home to elephant-sized ground sloths, mace-tailed armadillos the size of a car, and huge creatures that resembled humpless camels. Hunting them were a large subspecies of jaguar, sabre-toothed cats, and the gigantic short-faced bear, several times heavier than a grizzly. All of these giantsthe aptly named megafaunaare now gone. Why? In the 1930s, Junius Bird, an American archaeologist in the mold of Indiana Jones, found a clue...
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Obama warns of climate change in Yosemite Park remarks
2016-06-18 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama warned of the effects of climate change in remarks from Sentinel Bridge at Yosemite National Park on Saturday. Obama touted the National Park System, saying its a true expression of our democracy and is something we have in common, something we share. The president touted the Every Kind in a Park initiative, launched early last year to help elementary-school children visit national parks for free, while interacting with a crowd of children. "We want to make sure that...
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Catastrophic collision of human hunters and climate change killed
2016-06-18 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Post: Patagonia is littered with the bones of giants: sabre-toothed cats with huge, arcing cheek teeth, ground sloths that weighed as much as cars, bears that stood 10 feet tall. Throughout the last Ice Age, these creatures roamed the grasslands and mountain plateaus at South America`s southernmost tip. And then, suddenly, they died out. While examining ancient specimens for a study on evolutionary history a few years ago, molecular biologist Alan Cooper realized that the species all seemed to disappear...
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