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Climate change now bigger menace forest loss for snowshoe hares
2016-03-30 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceNews: For Wisconsins snowshoe hares, climate change now ranks as an even bigger menace than the bulldozing, paving and other destructive things people have done to northern forests. Habitat loss as humans reshape landscapes has loomed for decades as the main conservation problem for a lot of wildlife. Its still important, says climate change ecologist Benjamin Zuckerberg of the University of Wisconsin?Madison. But along the southern boundary of the snowshoe hares range, climate change bringing skimpy...
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This Is What Climate Change Has Done Great Barrier Reef
2016-03-29 05:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A new aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows the vast extent of a "severe" bleaching event that's caused widespread coral death over the past several weeks. The National Coral Bleaching Taskforce study found 95 percent of individual reefs in the most pristine section of the ecosystem showed severe bleaching. The research covered 520 reefs across more than 600 miles of coastline and found just four that didn't show signs of damage. Coral becomes "bleached" when the usually kaleidoscopic...
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How To Explain Climate Change To Your Kids, Because It's Become Parenting Necessity
2016-03-29 04:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Romper: As the earth continues to warm and the polar ice caps continue to melt, the question of how to explain climate change to your kids has become a real parenting issue. On the one hand, being real about climate change is an important aspect of raising a responsible, knowledgable citizen of the world. On the other hand, though, no parent wants to scare their child with doomsday scenarios. It's important that information about climate change comes from you, the parent, because--much as with that other...
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Climate change: Greenland melting tied to shrinking Arctic sea ice
2016-03-28 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Vanishing Arctic sea ice. Dogged weather systems over Greenland. Far-flung surface ice melting on the massive island. These dramatic trends and global sea-level rise are linked, according to a study coauthored by Jennifer Francis, a research professor in Rutgers University's Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. During Greenland summers, melting Arctic sea ice favors stronger and more frequent “blocking-high” pressure systems, which spin clo…
Will climate change leave a bleak future for humanity?
2016-03-28 06:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Charleston Gazette-Mail: Princeton scientist Robert Socolow says the worlds top universities should create a new field of research Destiny Studies to explore possible futures for humanity. Following up, Oxford physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert says the ultimate destiny will be incineration, hundreds of millions of years from now when the sun comes to the end of its life-cycle and swells to a lethal furnace, exterminating all living things on Planet Earth. In the immediate future, he says, humanitys destiny depends...
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