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After 42 years of charting health of our seas, scientists studies now face the axe
2014-10-26 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tim Birkhead has been monitoring guillemots for 42 years with intriguing results. His surveys, carried out on Skomer island in Wales, have provided key information about the wellbeing of the sea birds population around the British Isles and has also produced important insights into the health of our seas. However, the zoologists four-decade-long project is now threatened with closure. The newly formed quango Natural Resources Wales has said it will not continue to fund the 12,000-a-year survey,...
Florida politicians battle rhetoric as rising seas drive worries over climate change
2014-10-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: At least twice in a normal year, the Biscayne Bay rises to swamp the streets of this fashionable resort town in an event known as the king tide. Water spills over seawalls and gurgles up through storm drains in what scientists say is a preview of life in Florida in a warming climate. But this is an election year, when even nature becomes a foil for competing political narratives. When a highly anticipated king tide hit the Florida coast last week, state and local officials surged into action...
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Aral Sea's Eastern Basin Is Dry for First Time in 600 Years
2014-10-01 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Once the fourth largest lake in the world, Central Asia's shrinking Aral Sea has reached a new low, thanks to decades-old water diversions for irrigation and a more recent drought. Satellite imagery released this week by NASA shows that the eastern basin of the freshwater body is now completely dry. "It is likely the first time it has completely dried in 600 years, since medieval desiccation associated with diversion of Amu Darya [river] to the Caspian Sea," Philip Micklin, an Aral Sea expert...
As seas rise, Pacific island pres favors buying land abroad
2014-09-22 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The president of the Pacific island state of Kiribati favors buying more land abroad after a purchase in Fiji, to secure both food supplies and perhaps a future home if rising sea levels swamp low-lying atolls. Anote Tong, in Norway on a stopover to view melting Arctic ice pushing up sea levels before he attends a U.N. climate summit in New York on Tuesday, said he wanted to lay conditions for "migration with dignity" from the islands. Kiribati, a nation of 100,000 people scattered over 32...
Canary coal mine: Extreme weather, rising seas plague atoll nation
2014-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: As global leaders gear up to meet at next weeks United Nations Climate Summit in New York, the president of a small Pacific island nation vulnerable to rising seas caused by global warming said the future of his people depends on creating a carbon-free world by 2050. Out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, climate change has arrived, Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak said in a video address to his fellow heads of state. Our atoll nation stands at the front line in the battle...
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