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Which Species Will Survive Climate Change?
2016-02-17 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Its mid-February and along Britains south coast gilt-head bream are drifting from the open sea into the estuaries. Meanwhile, thousands of little egrets are preparing to fly to continental Europe for breeding season, though a few hundred will remain in the UK.The Conversation Across northern Europe, young wasp spiders will soon scamper out of their silky egg sacs. And this summer, countryside visitors throughout the south of England will catch sight of iridescent blue flashes as small red-eyed...
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Key halting climate change: admit we can't save everything
2016-02-17 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change, and human resistance to making the changes needed to halt it, both continue apace: 2015 was the hottest year in recorded history, we may be on the brink of a major species extinction event in the ocean, and yet political will is woefully lacking to tackle this solvable problem. Given these dire ecological trends, limited public funding and legislative gridlock, the time is ripe for a budget-neutral, executive-branch approach for managing our natural resources: triage. A science-based...
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Can climate change cause wars?
2016-02-17 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: For decades, psychologists have studied the links between temperature and aggression. Whatever the mechanism, it seems to be the case that with spikes in heat come spikes in violence. How can we understand this effect, and what might it mean for the risk of larger scale conflicts like war? Check out the video above. After all, were living in a warming world.
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Challenges facing Kiribati indicate what climate change could mean at its worst
2016-02-17 06:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dominion Post: Floating islands, builtup land, and refuge in Fiji are among the evacuation options Kiribati's government has considered to combat rising seas. Some of Kiribati's islands may disappear under the sea this century, President Anote Tong told New Zealand dignitaries, scientists and island representatives at the first Pacific Climate Change conference in Wellington this week. Some scientists believe Kiribati's chain of 33 atolls and islands, which stand just metres above sea level, could be uninhabitable...
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Tackling Climate Change Through Profits
2016-02-16 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Last month in Davos, the World Economic Forum released the results of a survey of 750 experts on the "most significant long-term risks worldwide." This year the survey was unequivocal: failing to act on climate change is the number one global risk. Coming on the heels of global climate talks in Paris late last year, this warning underscores the importance of the ambitious agreement world leaders achieved at COP21 to keep global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less. The 2015 Paris Climate Conference...
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