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Why Ocean Health Is Better, and Worse, Than You Think
2015-02-18 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Last month, a group of marine experts -- including lead author Douglas McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara -- published a groundbreaking study in the journal Science that delivered a sobering message: The worlds oceans are on the verge of major change that could cause irreparable damage to marine life. Poring through a host of records and data sets, ranging from ancient fossil records to present-day catch statistics, the scientists drew conclusions that were...
Experts: Climate Change May Make Northeast Winter Storms Worse
2015-02-12 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: The idea of a snow day is becoming less and less appealing as the city and surrounding areas suffer one winter storm after the other. Snow has been no friend to the Northeast this winter, and as another storm is ready to pummel the Northeast this weekend, climate change experts offer an explanation of why record-breaking amounts of precipitation may become a norm for the region. Simple physical laws will tell you that a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, Dr. David Robinson, a state...
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Catastrophic flooding is getting worse and we're woefully unprepared
2015-02-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: The Midwest is no stranger to devastating floods. Last summer, the region was inundated with two month's worth of rainfall in just one week, submerging farms and killing crops. Torrential downpours following a drought in Illinois in 2013 led to flooding that cost $1 billion. And Midwest flooding in 2008 caused 24 deaths and $15 billion in losses. Across the country, the United States has suffered from more than $260 billion in flood-related damages between 1980 and 2013--it's the most common natural...
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Farming Now Worse Climate Than Deforestation
2015-02-03 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The federal raids in Alta Floresta, Brazil surprised locals in 2005. The year before, nearly 60,000 acres of rainforest had been torn out of the municipality. Now farmers and loggers were being arrested by armed police, accused of environmental crimes. "It was a radical operation,' the newly elected mayor later recalled during an interview with a Princeton University researcher. "All our economic activity stopped.' A few years later, Brazil's central bank made it harder for property owners there,...
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Decline South Florida wading birds could mean Everglades worse off
2015-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: A decline in small herons and egrets that nest and forage among the Everglades wetlands and tree islands could mean work to restore the troubled ecosystem is not moving fast enough. An annual survey by the South Florida Water Management District released Thursday found that in 2014, five years after a record rebound, the overall number of nests in and around refuges, wildlife sanctuaries and water conservation areas was down by 60 percent -- 28 percent lower than in 2013. The drop in Everglades...
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