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Buzz Kill For Bumblebees: Climate Change Is Shrinking Their Range
2015-07-09 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: There's new evidence that wild bees, some of nature's most industrious pollinators of wildflowers and crops, are getting squeezed by our planet's changing climate. The evidence comes from a century of bee observations, carried out across North America and Europe. Biologist Jeremy Kerr, at the University of Ottawa, decided to look specifically at sightings of bumblebees. These are the big, fuzzy bees that live wild, not the honeybees that beekeepers manage. There are dozens of different bumblebee...
Bumblebee Habitat Shrinking Due to Climate Change, Plus 12 Other Animals at Risk
2015-07-09 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: Busy bees are at their busiest during summertime, cleaning the nest, foraging for food. They prefer the warm weather to colder seasons. But new research published in the July 10, 2015, Science reveals that for bumblebees in North America and Europe, suitable habitat to do this work is shrinking due to a warming climate, yet the bees arent moving. Bumblebee species are retreating from the extreme southern margin of their historic ranges and losing their populations there, Leif Richardson, a...
Jerry Brown will speak on climate change at Vatican event hosted Pope Francis
2015-07-09 19:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: "This unprecedented gathering of global leaders is a wake-up call to face up to the common threats of climate change and human exploitation," Brown said in a statement Thursday. "This is about the future of humanity and how we as human beings live and treat one another and the natural world around us." Brown, who once considered a life in the priesthood and spent years in a Jesuit seminary before dropping out, has traveled widely to urge stronger action against the advance of global warming. He...
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How to engage population with climate change? Frame it as public health issue
2015-07-09 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Recent research in Environmental Communication examines the powerful influence of mass media portrayal of climate change and subsequent public identification with the issue. Climate change is often reported as an environmental issue, this depiction arguably lacks personal relevance to individuals. Weathers and Kendall study US reportage of climate change in a public health frame; a more powerful presentation for motivating public engagement and action against climate change? The majority of the...
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Exxon Busted: knew climate change was a threat since 1981
2015-07-09 02:45:16| Energy - Topix.net
Turns out ExxonMobil , one of the world's worst climate polluters, has known about the dangers of climate change since 1981. Yet the oil giant continues to be a major funder of climate change denial today.
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