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Buffett: Climate change not causing more disasters
2014-03-03 07:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Warren Buffett says the rate of disasters that Berkshire Hathaway's insurance companies see hasn't changed because of extreme weather. Buffett said on CNBC Monday that he hasn't made any change in the way he calculates the likelihood of a catastrophe because of climate change. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns several insurance and reinsurance funds and often has to pay significant claims when natural disasters strike. Buffett says insuring against hurricanes in the United States has been extremely...
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Climate change may be causing a global coffee shortage
2014-02-26 08:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: An epic drought -- Brazil's worst in decades -- is threatening exports from the world's largest coffee exporter and driving up wholesale prices worldwide. We've officially entered the realm of bloggers' worst-case scenario. Now, let's not get too hasty. The world is not going to run out of coffee next week. Analysts still estimate an increasingly tight global coffee surplus of less than 1 percent of total production through the remainder of the year. But the Brazilian drought is causing a significant...
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Climate Change is Already Causing Mass Human Migration
2014-01-29 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Smithsonian: There are a lot of reasons people move:for work, for love, for the draw of the big city or the quiet of nature. But as the world continues to warm, it's expected that global climate change will become another factor driving people to move:to dodge coastal erosion and sea level rise, to follow changes in rainfall, to avoid strengthening storms. Climate change is already inducing marine animals to migrate, and according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, it's starting to...
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Study finds climate change is causing modifications to marine life behavior
2013-08-04 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys.Org: Oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface, yet our knowledge of the impact of climate change on marine habitats is a mere drop in the proverbial ocean compared to terrestrial systems. An international team of scientists set out to change that by conducting a global meta-analysis of climate change impacts on marine systems. Counter to previous thinking, marine species are shifting their geographic distribution toward the poles and doing so much faster than their land-based counterparts. The...
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Study: Climate change causing trees to use less water
2013-07-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Some trees seem to be adapting to climate change by using less water, according to a study by a team of researchers from several universities, including Indiana University, that was recently published in the journal Nature. Using atmospheric devices on a 150-foot tower in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest, IU researchers measured how much water vapor and gases were being absorbed and released by the forest. That information, combined with similar data from forests around the world, has led researchers...
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