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Tasmanian farmers demand climate change action after floods ruin farms
2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC Australia: Damian Atkins on the banks of the Mersey River, among the debris left behind by floodwaters. (Laura Poole) Related Story: Did climate change influence the weekend's storms? Map: Mole Creek 7304 Some flood-affected Tasmanian farmers want to see more action on climate change, a topic which has received little debate during the election campaign. Cropping, dairy, livestock and horticultural producers farming on waterways across north and west Tasmanian have watched their hard work wash away during...
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Zika, Ebola Outbreaks Can Be Predicted Using Climate Change
2016-06-14 13:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: FEBRUARY 09: Women walk with their wares through the West Point slum on February 9, 2016 in Monrovia, Liberia. West Point, the most impoverished and overpopulated community in Liberia, was hard hit by the Ebola outbreak, and health facilities at the time were overwhelmed. After almost two years, on January 14, 2016 the World Health Organization declared the epidemic over, after the virus had killed some 11,300 people and infected more than 28,500 people in West Africa. Scientists in the UK said...
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Wood mulch can help in climate change fight
2016-06-14 13:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: In a recent study undertaken in Kelowna-area apple orchards and vineyards, UBC researchers discovered that using mulch in agriculture can cut nitrous oxide emissions up to 28 per cent. "In addition to saving water, improving soil, combatting pests and stopping weeds, wood mulch actually reduces the release of a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide," says Craig Nichol, senior instructor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UBC's Okanagan campus. "Provided you are not driving...
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Australian rodent species first victim of climate change?
2016-06-14 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Climate change appears to have driven to extinction an Australian Great Barrier Reef rodent, according to a new study, which suggests the species may be the first mammal lost to the global phenomenon. Extensive searches for the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rat-like animal, have failed to find a single specimen from its only known habitat on a sandy island in far northern Australia. Researchers said the key factor behind the extinction was "almost certainly" ocean inundation of the low-lying...
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Australia: Risk register for climate change: report
2016-06-14 09:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: A key economic development body says Australia needs to start considering the cost of carbon emissions and establish a National Risk Register to help it plan for disasters associated with climate change. A new report from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) says that an estimate of the social cost of carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions - that is the economic damages associated with increased emissions - is needed to evaluate responses to climate change. CEDA on...
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