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Climate change one-two punch killed dinosaurs study
2016-07-05 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The dinosaurs` long reign was not ended by a merciful knockout punch, but by a torturous millennia of climate change before and after the oft-blamed space rock slammed into Earth, scientists said Tuesday. The impact at Chicxulub in modern-day Mexico certainly contributed to the disappearance of the giant lizards and other creatures, but was by no means the sole cause, a team concluded in a study published in Nature Communications. Of 24 mollusk species which went extinct at one Atlantic island,...
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Eagle that starred in British TV series killed by Mozambique hunters
2016-07-04 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A martial eagle from South Africa's Kruger National Park that starred in the British wildlife series "Fierce" has been killed by subsistence hunters in Mozambique, researchers who helped tag the bird said in a statement on Monday. The 4.6 kg (10 pound) bird made her television debut in June to highlight efforts by scientists looking to stem the decline of martial eagles, Africa's largest eagle species. "We detected that the bird was no longer moving about in a normal fashion," said Rowen van...
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At least 43 killed in flash floods in Pakistan
2016-07-03 05:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Flash floods caused by overnight monsoon rains have killed at least 43 people in northern Pakistan, the majority from a village near the border with Afghanistan, officials said Sunday, as supplies were airlifted to survivors. The rains began late Saturday and were concentrated mainly in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has been badly affected by flooding in recent years that some scientists have linked to climate change. The worst hit district was Chitral, on the country's...
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Climate change, not humans, killed off megafauna
2016-07-02 09:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: It's a contentious question. Why did the giant kangaroos and rhino-sized wombats that once roamed Australia die out? Scientists agree there are two contenders: climate change and humans. But they are fiercely divided over which caused the continent's megafauna to go extinct. Now, fresh results of a study at a renowned Victorian fossil site in the Macedon Ranges town of Lancefield 73 kilometres north of Melbourne has provided an answer. The diprotodon was a rhino-sized wombat that weighed...
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3.2 Million Animals Killed by Wildlife Services in 2015
2016-06-21 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The highly secretive arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture known as Wildlife Services killed more than 3.2 million animals during fiscal year 2015, according to new data released by the agency. The total number of wolves, coyotes, bears, mountain lions, beavers, foxes, eagles and other animals killed largely at the behest of the livestock industry and other agribusinesses represents a half-million-animal increase more than the 2.7 million animals the agency killed in 2014. Despite increasing...
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