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Climate Change Could Be Fuelled By Cattle Drugs
2016-05-25 12:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quadrangle: Working with fellow researchers in Finland, Hammer compared the dung of livestock that were given tetracycline with those of cattle that were not given the antibiotic. Overall, the researchers found that antibiotics upped the methane footprint of dung by an average of 80 percent over poo from cattle that weren't fed drugs. Now, the team said, it plans to go and conduct further studies to better quantify the contribution of agricultural antibiotic use to climate change. Specifically, the global...
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Dungeness crabs threatened by, you guessed it, climate change
2016-05-25 11:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When it comes to American culinary institutions, the Dungeness crabs that are hauled ashore from California to Washington state every winter season are the crustacean equivalents of apple pie. The bountiful crab meat is a holiday staple in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. When crabbing was suspended in the fall by an algae outbreak, journalists flocked to docks to produce lead news stories -- just as they did when crabbing was restricted following a 2007 oil spill. Research published...
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Cattle drugs 'could fuel climate change'
2016-05-25 03:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Dosing farm animals with antibiotics increases greenhouse gas emissions from cow dung, research suggests. Scientists say the drugs boost methane production in cowpats - apparently by favouring antibiotic-resistant, methane-producing organisms in the gut. Antibiotics also change the microbes which inhabit dung beetles, although apparently with no adverse effects. The researchers say it's proof that antibiotic use on farms has unintended, cascading effects on the environment. For the new...
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Public Schools in Portland Banned from Teaching Materials that Denies Climate Change
2016-05-25 02:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: In hopes to facilitate better climate education for the children, the Portland Public Schools board have implemented drastic measures banning any teaching materials that deny or cast a doubt on climate change. The resolution, passed last May 17, requires school district to remove textbooks and other teaching materials that suggest that climate change is not happening, or that states that human activities have nothing to with the changing climate. The unanimously approved resolution also limit...
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Climate Change, Global Health Intimately Linked, UN Official Stresses
2016-05-24 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Global health hinges on drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a chief mover in the field of climate change told delegates Tuesday at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, praised the groundbreaking Paris Climate Change Agreement signed by 177 countries and likely to come into force in the next year or two. She says the deal is promising for both the climate and global health. "In...
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