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Climate change in real time: Incredible animations reveal changing ocean acidity
2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Satellite images are being used to monitor how ocean acidification is changing the world's seas. For the first time, scientists have been able to obtain a global picture of how rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are affecting the oceans. Using thermal cameras and microwave sensors mounted on satellites orbiting 435 miles above Earth, the experts said it's possible to assess which areas of the ocean are most at risk of acidification. Scientists have used satellite data to map...
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Scientists sound storm warning on African climate change
2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: On a typical February day in West Africa, Cape Verdeans are taking time to cool down as the island nation is buffeted by a rare unseasonal downpour. For the scientists gathered in the archipelagos capital Praia, however, the rain is a worrying portent of the changing climate to which Africa is becoming increasingly vulnerable. With each new decade the continent is witnessing more droughts, heatwaves and deadly floods like those that overwhelmed Malawi and Mozambique in January, according to experts...
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Can science solve climate change?
2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: WHAT HAPPENS if humans fail to cut carbon dioxide emissions enough to prevent worsening climate change? A new report from the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences contemplates some very unattractive -- but potentially necessary -- backup plans. Ending deforestation seems like an obvious answer. But, the report found, planting more trees wont do enough to suck CO2 out of the air. Instead, humans might have to use decidedly less natural methods to counteract global warming....
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Evidence: Will climate change affect spread tropical diseases?
2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Many tropical diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease and dengue are transmitted to humans via mosquitoes and other carriers known as vectors. These vector-borne diseases continue to have a major impact on human health in the developing world: each year, more than a billion people become infected and around a million people die. In addition, around one in six cases of illness and disability worldwide arise from these diseases. Malaria arguably continues to attract the most attention of all the...
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Could these big data projects fix climate change?
2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fortune: Somethings up with the environment. Sea levels have risen nearly seven inches in the past 100 years, and Arctic ice sheets are shrinking at about 13% a decade, according to NASA. Meanwhile the earths surface temperature has been climbing steadily upward, says the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. But its also the era of using big data to find ways to solve environmental problems. Crunching data already helps with reducing traffic jams and lowering crime rates. So why not climate...
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