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Feds to require climate change plans for states seeking disaster relief
2015-05-05 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A new Federal Emergency Management Agency policy requiring states to address climate change before they can become eligible for grant funding is drawing fire from congressional Republicans. The regulations, part of a FEMA State Mitigation Plan Review Guide issued last month, are not set to take effect until next March. But lawmakers are demanding an explanation for the rules now. In a letter to FEMA Administrator W. Craig Fugate, the lawmakers said theyre concerned that the agencys decision...
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Study shows how pollen seeds clouds and may change the weather
2015-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Those pollen grains in the air that make you miserable may have a surprising side effect: heavier rain. A new study says bits of pollen lofted into the atmosphere by springtime winds make their way into clouds, seed them and may even intensify downpours. The study, Pollen as atmospheric cloud condensation nuclei, is the among the first to propose the idea that pollen helps enhance clouds. The [pollen] grains were thought to be too large to be important in the climate system, too large to...
Fjords are unexpected natural allies against climate change: Study
2015-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fjords from Alaska to Norway soak up potentially damaging carbon from the atmosphere, making the steep-sided inlets an overlooked natural ally in offsetting man-made climate change, a study showed on Monday. Fjords cover only 0.1 percent of the world's ocean surface but account for 11 percent of the organic carbon in plants, soils and rocks that gets buried in marine sediments every year after being washed off the land by rivers, it said. The cliff-sided inlets, carved out by glaciers in successive...
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Scientists on 'strangest continent' Antarctica investigate effect climate change on animals
2015-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: An eclectic group of scientists in Antarctica, known as the "strangest continent on earth", undertake painstaking research into the effects of climate change on local animals and the environment. King George Island is a remote speck of ice-covered mountains at the far north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is also the nearest thing in Antarctica to an accessible destination. Every summer, hundreds of scientists fly down from the bottom of South America to the island's gravel runway operated by...
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Climate change sparks tension in India tea gardens
2015-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Usha Ghatowar smiles wryly when asked about the pay she earns picking leaves at a colonial-era tea garden in Assam. "Do you think 3,000 rupees are enough when your monthly expenses can be double that?" she mumbles, as she puts on her "jaapi" hat of woven bamboo and palm leaves and takes a sip of tea from a steel mug. As the women workers around Ghatowar nod in agreement the heavens open - it has started raining heavily in recent days after three largely dry months. Unrest is brewing among...
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