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154 Religious Leaders All World Regions Call For A Zero Carbon, Climate Resilient And Equitable Future
2015-10-20 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Today a statement signed by 154 religious leaders from different faith groups has been handed over to the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres. While negotiators representing 194 countries gather in Bonn this week to work on a draft text for Decembers climate conference in Paris, religious leaders are issuing this call for an ambitious climate agreement, remind all governments to commit to emission cuts and climate risk reduction,...
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Are humans a bigger threat than climate change?
2015-10-20 16:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Seventy-five percent of Americans believe that global warming is a very or somewhat serious problem, even if they continue to debate whether human activity is to blame. But it turns out that other species may face an even greater threat than climate change: humans themselves. In 2004, professional research diver Brian Kakuk managed to inspect a Bahaman sinkhole whose layer of toxic water had put off other explorers but had perfectly preserved fossils of species now extinct on Great Abaco...
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Creating corals that can survive climate change
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Keyhole Reef is one of dozens of small reefs rising abruptly from the depths of Kaneohe Bay, one of Hawaiis most scenic places. The water around it is sapphire blue, and bright schools of tang and triggerfish flit over its surface. But the reef is showing troubling signs of stress these days because of climate change. Here and there along the steep face of the reef, clumps of coral have turned stark white. This bleaching means the coral has begun to eject the micro-algae that normally live within...
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A case study of climate change vs. human activity
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Human activity has had at least as much effect as climate change on the survival of animals on the Bahamian island of Abaco, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at 10,000-year-old fossils found in an underwater cave on Abaco. They compared them with fossils from the island that date to 1,000 to 3,000 years ago, along with data from current vertebrate populations. The scientists found that during the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, some 17 bird species went extinct on Abaco because of...
Climate change means plants are growing better, but they are drinking more water
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is making plants in Australia's semi-arid and subtropical regions bigger and greener. It's also making them a hell of a lot thirstier. It is a peculiar paradox that sees plants "greening" and growing better as a result of climate change, while water supply across Australia's grazing and annual cropping land is suffering. "What we are seeing is very much consistent with [the effect of] increasing carbon dioxide, the main ingredient of photosynthesis. So higher...
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