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UK will struggle to meet climate target if fracking goes ahead

2016-07-07 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: It's bad news for the UK's wannabe frackers. A long-awaited report from the UK's Climate Change Committee, an independent body, says that fracking will not bust the nation's carbon budget - but only if three strict conditions are met. Those conditions are going to be very difficult to meet in practice, which means the UK government cannot allow fracking on a large scale if the country is to meet its emissions targets. Under the 2008 Climate Act, the UK has to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions...

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Climate change is spreading Lyme disease

2016-07-07 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

The Week: Nymphs questing through the forest. The phrase conjures up images of a scene from Game of Thrones. But encountering a real nymph on its quest offers a potentially harmful brush with climate change. Immature deer ticks are called questing nymphs. They now inhabit a wide swath of North American forests, but they didn't always. During early summer, their quest is for blood. The season now starts earlier and lasts longer than it did in the past, which is good for the ticks. But it's bad for humans,...

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Climate change plagues Madagascar's poor: 'The water rose so fast'

2016-07-07 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Angenie, 21, lives in a country many people think of as an ecological paradise, home to a unique diversity of plants and animals. Yet within the past three years she has witnessed droughts and floods so severe she has had to flee her home to escape them twice. Angenie grew up in southern Madagascar where, as a child, she remembers things being green. But for the past few years a severe drought, blamed on the devastating effects of El Nio, has gripped the southern region. The land got dry,...

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Climate disrupts UK wildlife calendar

2016-07-07 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: In a warming world, in which spring arrives ever earlier and rainfall patterns shift, some species may not be able to cope with change. A major scientific survey warns that plants may flower before insects are ready to pollinate them, and the birds that time their nest cycles to the season for insects might find their prey in short supply. Scientists in the UK have just published the largest ever study of ecosystems and the changes in the seasons. They report in Nature journal that a consortium...

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Fracking rules must be tougher, say UKs climate advisors

2016-07-07 09:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Energy Live News: Shale gas production will not be consistent with the UKs climate targets unless there are tougher regulations in place. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) believes large-scale fracking could only go ahead if three key tests are met to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They are as follows: Test 1: Emissions must be tightly regulated and closely monitored during well development, production and decommissioning in order to ensure rapid action to address leaks. Test 2: Unabated...

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