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Climate change altering Lake Tahoe
2016-08-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: As a young reporter, Mark Twain visited Lake Tahoe. Its clear, cobalt blue water so entranced him that he wrote of it later, in "The Innocents Abroad." "I have fished for trout, in Tahoe," Twain wrote, "and at a measured depth of eighty-four feet I have seen them put their noses to the bait and I could see their gills open and shut." That was then. One hundred fifty years or so later, a new "state-of-the-lake" report issued last week by researchers at UC Davis has found the lake increasingly opaque...
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India: Climate change hits apple cultivation
2016-08-07 14:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tribune: Climate change is impacting apple cultivation, the mainstay of orchardists in Shimla, Kinnaur, Kullu, Mandi, Chamba, Sirmaur and Lahaul-Spiti, casting a shadow on production. The apple marketing season is at its peak, but the production is likely to dip this year and experts attribute it to climate change. "The production is likely to be about 50 per cent of the 7.55 lakh tonnes (3.80 crore) boxes produced last year as the crop has been adversely affected by scanty snowfall and poor rain,"...
Fishing contributes to climate change
2016-08-07 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: The yummy fish delicacy on your plate is contributing significantly to global warming and climate change. Fisheries scientists of Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Kochi, have estimated that fishery activities taking place on the Kerala coast adds 8.07 lakh tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. Annually around 6.7 lakh tonnes of fish are caught and brought to the Kerala coast by the fleet of both mechanised and motorised fishing vessels. One tonne of oil sardine, one of...
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Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscars speech caused surge in climate change tweets and searches
2016-08-07 11:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NME: Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscars acceptance speech led to a huge surge in tweets and Google searches about climate change, a new report shows. The actor spoke about the issue while picking up his first Oscar for his role in The Revenant earlier this year. "Climate change is real. It is happening right now," he said during his speech. "It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating." A new paper published by PlOS ONE shows...
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US tribes work with scientists against climate change
2016-08-07 10:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The last five years have been tough on Tye Baker, the director of Water Resources for the Choctaw Tribe of Oklahoma. First, there was the drought: frighteningly little precipitation from the end of 2010 until the spring of 2015. Then there was heat: 35 straight days of temperatures above 37 degrees Celcius in 2011. Then came the flooding: torrents of rain, 30cm at a time, during the summer of 2015. Through it all, it has been up to Baker to ensure that the Choctaw people have clean, drinkable water...
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