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How climate change may be impacting the world's tropical forests
2016-02-22 06:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurekAlert: New research suggests that multi-year droughts will significantly alter the structure, composition, and dynamics of second-growth tropical forests, which have re-grown after cessation of agricultural activity or a major disturbance such as fire. These second-growth forests represent the prevalent tropical forest cover today. Investigators combined 14 years of data on annual tree growth and survival with local climate records in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica to evaluate tree responses to inter-annual...
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Australia risks missing climate change commitments: Report
2016-02-22 01:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IANS: Australia risks not meeting its commitments agreed to under the Paris Climate Change agreement while also being ill-prepared to offset the local impact due to job cuts at the nation's chief scientific body, a report said. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) recently announced it would halve the number of employees in its climate science programme, with approximately 100 jobs to go from its two main climate monitoring and modelling stations, Xinhua cited the...
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Climate change deal risked by CSIRO cuts
2016-02-21 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Job cuts at the CSIRO will leave Australia ill-prepared to deal with climate change or meet its commitments under the Paris agreement, the Climate Council says. The CSIRO recently announced it would halve the number of employees in climate science, with around 100 jobs to go from two main monitoring and modelling programs. The council has looked into the local and international impact the change will have. Its report, Flying Blind: Navigating Climate Change without the CSIRO, released on Monday,...
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For Russian Farmers, Climate Change Is Nyet So Great
2016-02-21 18:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says last month was the warmest January on record. That sets off alarm bells for climate scientists, but for the average person living in a northern climate, it might not sound so bad. That's what many people are saying these days in Russia, where the expected icy winter has failed to materialize this year to widespread joy. Of course, any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month or even a whole warm winter doesn't mean...
Climate change politics is blinding us to the devastating effects of dirty air
2016-02-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is the greatest environmental hazard of the age. Nothing focuses our concern for the future more, divides rich and poor, exercises science, business, politicians, old and young. It is an existential threat, a generational battle. All political and financial resources must be concentrated on stopping climate change. But now that governments have signed up to the unambitious Paris climate agreement and pledged to try to limit greenhouse gas emissions, we must ask whether we have lost sight of...
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