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South Australia faces water crisis by end century due climate change
2014-07-13 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A predicted 40% decline in rainfall in southern Australia could mean that the West Australian capital, Perth, will have to rely on alternative sources of water in future, a new climate change research paper warns. The study, led by an academic at the USs National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, examined the causes of rainfall decline in southern Australia over the past few decades and concluded that human activity was a significant contributor. The findings, published in the journal...
Conserving water and climate change
2014-07-08 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: There's more to trying to slow down climate change than just cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Technology, policies or plans that aim to do so should also take environmental factors such as water usage into account. A more integrated approach might make some options considerably more attractive than others, especially when implemented in arid countries such as Australia, advise Philip Wallis of Monash University in Australia and colleagues, in an article in Springer's journal Climatic Change. The...
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Saving water in drying climate: lessons from south-west Australia
2014-06-30 15:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Michael Bennett was employed by the University of Western Australia with funding from the National Centre from Groundwater Research and Training. The research for this project was funded by the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, a research initiative of the Australian Government funded through the National Water Commission and the Australian Research Council. Since 1970, average rainfall in the south-west of Western Australia has decreased by nearly a fifth, and the science...
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Climate Change Harms Fresh Water Quality
2014-05-17 09:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chapelboro: A study published in Global Change Biology claims that the quality of fresh water is beginning to diminish in lower elevation forests, and that climate change is to blame. The director of the Institute for the Environment, and distinguished professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lawrence E. Band, states that the lower elevated watersheds are becoming greatly stressed due to the recent frequency of droughts in those areas. If we become more dependent on upper...
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National report highlights climate change risk of drought, water shortages for Southwest
2014-05-06 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deseret News: Called a scare tactic by some but heralded by others, the comprehensive National Climate Assessment released Tuesday predicts a hot, dry future for Utah marked by more wildfires, drought, greater air pollution and scarcity of water due to climate change. In other words, a business-as-usual approach for fossil fuel emissions will drive scary developments in the state, of which the entire western half is projected to be at "high risk" for having enough water by 2050, according to the report. The...
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