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10 climate change canaries
2015-10-11 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: 1 The Argentine ant It's been called the "Ghenghis Khan" of the ant world, and for good reason. The notoriously invasive Argentine ant has a global track record of devastating and altering the biodiversity of native communities it enters. But, by watching shifts in its distribution around the country, we might find some use in it as a handy indicator of change. Like other insects, this ant is substantially affected by temperature, and to successfully reproduce and maintain a foothold...
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Climate change latest threat to endemic birds
2015-10-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hawaii Tribune Herald: Hawaii Islands endemic bird populations have been pressured for centuries because of disease, habitat loss, predation and loss of prey. Recent work by biologists at the United States Geologic Survey Pacific Island Ecosystem Research Center indicates climate change also could threaten the populations as rising temperatures create conditions that allow mosquitoes -- vectors for avian malaria and avian pox -- to thrive at previously inaccessible elevations. The pattern already has been observed...
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India's Ambitious Climate Change Plan
2015-10-11 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Javadekar told the daily that India, on the basis of its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), would take various measures to increase the country's "carbon sink through a massive afforestation drive". The INDC states explicitly that "coal will continue to dominate power generation in the future" and mentioned developing "clean coal" technologies. In September 2013, 209 lead authors and 600 contributing authors from 39 nations concluded: global warming is "unequivocal", sea levels...
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Japan: Judges plan outlaw climate change denial
2015-10-11 02:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: We might think that a semi-secret, international conference of top judges, held in the highest courtroom in Britain, to propose that it should be made illegal for anyone to question the scientific evidence for man-made global warming, was odd enough to be worthy of front-page coverage. Last week I mentioned that the Prince of Wales had sent a message to this conference calling for the UNs forthcoming climate meeting in Paris to agree on a Magna Carta for the Earth. But only a series of startling...
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The most pessimistic climate change scientist has sudden change of heart
2015-10-11 00:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The world has a better chance of saving itself from catastrophic global warming now than at any time over the past two decades, according to the scientist behind some of the most alarming predictions ever made for the planets future. Johan Rockström shocked environmentalists in 2009 when he identified nine categories of Nature that were essential for life as we know it, and warned that we had already crossed into dangerous territory on three of them including climate change. Rockström, an...
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