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A New Climate Danger: Carbon Released by Burning Bogs
2016-08-08 05:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Kristyn Housman grabbed the end of a sampling auger, a steel tube that two colleagues had just drilled into a moss-covered hummock in a peat bog, and poked through a damp, fibrous plug of partly decomposed peat. Peat has been building up for centuries in this bog, where the spongy moss is interspersed with black spruces and, on a late spring morning, the air is teeming with mosquitoes. The sample, taken from three feet down, is at least several hundred years old, said Ms. Housman, a graduate researcher...
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Great Barrier Reef rodent becomes first extinct mammal at the hand of climate change
2016-08-08 04:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ZME Magazine: Great Barrier Reefs only endemic mammal, the Bramble Cay melomys, is now officially extinct, scientists say. The rat-like rodent occupied a very confined habitat spanning an area no larger than a football field called Bramble Cay, a minuscule atoll in the northeast Torres Strait, Australia. Although pressured by human hunting and competition with other species, what ultimately killed off the species were surging seawaters and rising tides triggered by man-made climate change the first mammalian...
Olympic Records Won't Come Easy in Rio Because of Climate Change
2016-08-08 04:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Athletes at the Olympic Games may struggle to break world records as they compete with Brazils rising temperatures caused by climate change. Marathon runners, swimmers, volleyball players and even soccer referees will succumb to extreme heat and lose concentration during the games, in some cases risking their lives to heatstroke, according to a report released Monday by Observatorio do Clima, a Brazilian civil society group. Because of warming, sport will never be the same again, the report...
Rio Olympic effect: public discussion on issue of climate change increases
2016-08-08 02:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
American Bazaar: When the Rio Olympics begins with a truly spectacular show at Rio, Brazil, just a couple of days ago, it had a segment on climate change that staged the perils of sea level rise on vulnerable nations and Ed Hawkins compelling visual spiral indicating global warming made it truly charming. It was a big hit on social media that also added the Leonardo di Caprios speech about climate change at the Oscars . This Rio Olympic Effect and the DiCaprio Effect resonates with the public on this issue...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech on Climate Change Makes a Difference Based on Statistics
2016-08-08 02:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It's no surprise how celebrities can cause a huge impact on world issues. In fact, thanks to Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar speech on climate change, it got people talking. A study done by a group of researchers from San Diego State University prove that DiCaprio certainly made an impression. John Ayers led the research along with colleagues from the University of California San Diego and Santa Fe Institute. They studied the statistics and how DiCaprio's speech on climate change affected data analysis....
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