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Climate change means plants are growing better, but they are drinking more water
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is making plants in Australia's semi-arid and subtropical regions bigger and greener. It's also making them a hell of a lot thirstier. It is a peculiar paradox that sees plants "greening" and growing better as a result of climate change, while water supply across Australia's grazing and annual cropping land is suffering. "What we are seeing is very much consistent with [the effect of] increasing carbon dioxide, the main ingredient of photosynthesis. So higher...
Pakistan's climate change 'time bomb' is already ticking
2015-10-20 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The sprawling megacity lies crumbling, desiccated by another deadly heatwave, its millions of inhabitants suffering life-threatening water shortages and unable to buy bread that has become too expensive to eat. It sounds like the stuff of dystopian fiction but it could be the reality Pakistan is facing. With its northern glaciers melting and its population surging - the country`s climate change time bomb is already ticking. In a nation facing violence and an unprecedented energy shortage slowing...
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Upcoming Windows 10 patch begs you not to change default programs, switch browsers
2015-10-20 15:00:19| Extremetech
Microsoft's daring new strategy to convince users not to leave its apps? Begging!
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Researchers project long-term effects of climate change, deforestation on Himalayan mountain basins
2015-10-20 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As part of an multi-disciplinary study, a team of Baylor researchers found that climatic changes, an increase in agricultural land use and population growth in the Himalaya Mountain basins could have negative impacts on water availability, further stressing a region plagued by natural disasters and food insecurity. The study--"Projected hydrologic changes in monsoon-dominated Himalaya Mountain basins with changing climate and deforestation"--is published in the Journal of Hydrology. Using a sophisticated...
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Nina Teicholz: Sign petition to urge Congress to change dietary guidelines
2015-10-20 00:05:22| Beef
As Congress meets to discuss the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which will be finalized in December, author Nina Teicholz is urging folks to sign a petition forcing the White House to review and change the committees proposed dietary advice, which ignores sound science about the role of animal proteins and fats in the diet. Content Classification: Curated BEEF Daily read more
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