je.st
news
Tag: climate change
Climate change altering Lake Tahoe
2016-08-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: As a young reporter, Mark Twain visited Lake Tahoe. Its clear, cobalt blue water so entranced him that he wrote of it later, in "The Innocents Abroad." "I have fished for trout, in Tahoe," Twain wrote, "and at a measured depth of eighty-four feet I have seen them put their noses to the bait and I could see their gills open and shut." That was then. One hundred fifty years or so later, a new "state-of-the-lake" report issued last week by researchers at UC Davis has found the lake increasingly opaque...
Tags: change
lake
climate
climate change
India: Climate change hits apple cultivation
2016-08-07 14:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tribune: Climate change is impacting apple cultivation, the mainstay of orchardists in Shimla, Kinnaur, Kullu, Mandi, Chamba, Sirmaur and Lahaul-Spiti, casting a shadow on production. The apple marketing season is at its peak, but the production is likely to dip this year and experts attribute it to climate change. "The production is likely to be about 50 per cent of the 7.55 lakh tonnes (3.80 crore) boxes produced last year as the crop has been adversely affected by scanty snowfall and poor rain,"...
Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscars speech caused surge in climate change tweets and searches
2016-08-07 11:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NME: Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscars acceptance speech led to a huge surge in tweets and Google searches about climate change, a new report shows. The actor spoke about the issue while picking up his first Oscar for his role in The Revenant earlier this year. "Climate change is real. It is happening right now," he said during his speech. "It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating." A new paper published by PlOS ONE shows...
Tags: change
searches
caused
speech
Olympics' climate change message sparks conservative backlash
2016-08-06 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Conservative backlash spread on social media after the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics' opening ceremony featured a warning about climate change. The primetime spectacle started with a young boy with a Pau-Brasil tree in the center of the stadium, a rare tree on on the list of Brazils endangered plants. A video then showed a dramatic depiction of Earth and several major cities affected by rising water levels as Antarctic ice sheets rapidly melt. While some were happy the Olympics used its global...
Tags: message
change
climate
climate change
Climate change threatens nation's agriculture
2016-08-06 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: Travel to anywhere in Japan today and one of the first things you`re likely to see, especially in rural areas seeking more tourists, are stores and farmers` markets selling local agricultural products based on a locally "famous" fruit or vegetable. Whether it`s Hokkaido corn, Yamagata cherries, Nara strawberries, Ehime mandarin oranges, or Okinawan limes, the country`s rural areas have stepped up their efforts in recent years to market their hometown foods domestically, as well as internationally,...
Tags: change
agriculture
nations
climate
Sites : [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] next »