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Threat to frogs may be sign of worse to come some Kansas scientists say
2014-05-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wichita Eagle: A bullfrog peers out from the shallows in a Kansas wetlands area. Rafe Brown on Monday will head from Lawrence, where he teaches herpetology and other subjects at the University of Kansas. He'll go to islands in the Philippines, where, among other things, he'll catch frogs. With other scientists, he'll tramp through jungles and climb volcanic island mountains looking for frogs, toads and other creatures of nature. For scientists like him, studying frogs is not some sort of offbeat hobby....
We're no threat, Facebook tells big banks
2014-05-26 05:51:33| Automakers - Topix.net
"At the end of the day, no matter what we do, we are going to be underpinned and backed by the banking system."
World must consider antibiotic-resistant pathogens same level of a threat as climate change
2014-05-25 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Kos: 50 years from now, this year may be remembered as the year the world finally came together to take the challenge of antibiotic resistance seriously enough to set up our first global organization to respond to it. Mark Woolhouse, of Edinburgh University's Centre for Immunity, Infection, and Evolution, and Jeremy Farrar, Director of The Wellcome Trust medical charity write in the journal Nature, calling for the U.N. to found a new global organization to lead the battle against antibiotic resistant...
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Climate Change Deemed a Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers
2014-05-25 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthout: A quick hit while I focus on more substantive stuff. It seems the military has discovered the dangers lurking in the climate crisis. Or perhaps the media has discovered the military noticing. Id seen reports as far back as 2005 showing the military getting climate crisis advice from consultants. This is far more recent, however. From the New York Times: Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to...
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US House denies Pentagon funds to tackle climate change as security threat
2014-05-23 03:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RT: The US House has voted to deny the Pentagon funding to combat impacts of climate change and its own heavy dependence on fossil fuels. The Department has long acknowledged the realities of global warming amid political wrangling over its effects. The House voted, mostly along party lines, to pass an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that aims to prevent the Pentagon from using appropriated funding to address the myriad national security concerns the Department of Defense...
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