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How climate change affects bird populations
2015-04-11 18:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Suffolk Times: Birds arent political.Thats why the National Audubon Societys Conservation Data Manager Tom Auer hopes hell be able to engage his audience at Mashomack Preserve today in taking steps to protect the feathered population from becoming extinct. The Audubon Society and groups like the World Wildlife Fund have gathered evidence that shows that climate change has already affected the bird population. Several months ago, Audubon issued a lengthy report outlining observations made in the field both...
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Why Obama linked climate change to his daughters asthma
2015-04-10 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: YOU HEAR THAT? Its President Obama dropping another climate gauntlet. The core of the presidents announcements late Tuesday was a set of initiatives meant to track, mitigate, and inform the public about the dangers of diseases exacerbated by human-caused global warming. But the vehicle for these policies was in its own way even more interesting: an anecdote about his daughter Malias childhood struggles with asthma. Malia had asthma when she was 4, and because we had good health insurance,...
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Australia climate change 'debate' all talk & no action
2015-04-10 06:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias climate debate screamed itself out nine months ago and fell over in exhaustion, having smashed a workable policy and failed to produce an alternative. People who care about the subject, which youd think would be most people considering what is at stake, struggled to maintain a rational conversation, given that the former governments policy had been taken down by rhetorical nonsense Whyalla wipeouts and $100 lamb roasts and the like and the Abbott governments still sketchy...
Climate change seen bringing more fires, less snow to Yellowstone
2015-04-10 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Predicted climate changes bringing warmer and drier conditions to Yellowstone National Park will likely fuel catastrophic wildfires, cause declines in mountain snows and threaten the survival of animals and plants, scientists said on Thursday. Warming that is expected in the American West over the next few decades would transform lands in and around Yellowstone from a wetter, mostly forested Rocky Mountain ecosystem to a more open landscape akin to the arid U.S. Southwest, the researchers said in...
Climate Change Is a Public Health Issue
2015-04-09 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: It's National Public Health Week, an important time to connect the dots between human health and climate change. Earlier this week, nearly 1,000 doctors, nurses, researchers and other health professionals from 49 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia did just that, calling for bold action on climate in a letter delivered to President Obama. "The risks climate change poses to public health have been well-documented," they wrote. The letter, which we joined Physicians for Social Responsibility...
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