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Extinction crisis: rising sea levels will submerge thousands islands
2014-04-08 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Sea levels are rising at the highest rate in thousands of years, putting at risk low-lying islands around the world. In a new study published in Nature Conservation, researchers found that projected rises in sea level stand to swamp more than 10,000 islands, displacing human communities and wiping many unique species off the face of the earth. Climate change is leading to rising oceans in a two-fold way. First, increasing temperatures at the poles are melting ice-sheets, discharging more and more...
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MIT researchers propose massive bloom of methanogenic microbes may have triggered end-Permian extinction
2014-04-01 13:30:39| Green Car Congress
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Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth's worst mass extinction
2014-03-31 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere triggered a global catastrophe 252 million years ago that wiped out upwards of 90 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates. That's the hypothesis offered on Monday by researchers aiming to solve one of science's enduring mysteries: what happened at the end of the Permian period to cause the worst of the five mass extinctions in Earth's history. The scale of this calamity made the one that doomed the...
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US: Study says apparel retailers facing extinction
2014-03-31 13:41:08| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The US retail category has lost its way and is heading for a doomsday scenario, according to re-branding company Stealing Share.
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Elizabeth Kolbert on How Tech Can And Cant Tackle Climate Change and Extinction
2014-03-23 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Recode: Somewhere around two hundred thousand years ago, a new primate emerges on Earth. "The members of the species are not particularly swift or strong or fertile," the New Yorker`s Elizabeth Kolbert writes in her new book, "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History." "They are, however, singularly resourceful." It is, of course, us - big-brained, small-browed genetic mutants clever enough to outcompete animals ten times our size and gradually fan out across the globe. Eventually, humankind invents...
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