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Climate change means plants are growing better, but they are drinking more water
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is making plants in Australia's semi-arid and subtropical regions bigger and greener. It's also making them a hell of a lot thirstier. It is a peculiar paradox that sees plants "greening" and growing better as a result of climate change, while water supply across Australia's grazing and annual cropping land is suffering. "What we are seeing is very much consistent with [the effect of] increasing carbon dioxide, the main ingredient of photosynthesis. So higher...
Pakistan's climate change 'time bomb' is already ticking
2015-10-20 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The sprawling megacity lies crumbling, desiccated by another deadly heatwave, its millions of inhabitants suffering life-threatening water shortages and unable to buy bread that has become too expensive to eat. It sounds like the stuff of dystopian fiction but it could be the reality Pakistan is facing. With its northern glaciers melting and its population surging - the country`s climate change time bomb is already ticking. In a nation facing violence and an unprecedented energy shortage slowing...
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Researchers project long-term effects of climate change, deforestation on Himalayan mountain basins
2015-10-20 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As part of an multi-disciplinary study, a team of Baylor researchers found that climatic changes, an increase in agricultural land use and population growth in the Himalaya Mountain basins could have negative impacts on water availability, further stressing a region plagued by natural disasters and food insecurity. The study--"Projected hydrologic changes in monsoon-dominated Himalaya Mountain basins with changing climate and deforestation"--is published in the Journal of Hydrology. Using a sophisticated...
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Study: Climate change adding billions to US hurricane costs
2015-10-19 19:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The economic cost of U.S. hurricane strikes has increased dramatically due to man-made climate change, says a study out Monday. "The rise in losses is consistent with an influence of global warming on the number and intensity of hurricanes, an influence which may have accounted for 2% to 12% of the U.S. hurricane losses in 2005," according to the study. In 2005 alone, climate change was likely responsible for close to $14 billion of additional damage, including the part of the devastation from...
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Climate change could leave sea turtles without mates
2015-10-19 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS News: Sea turtles might be facing an unusual problem: too many girls. Unlike a human baby, whose X and Y chromosomes determine whether it will be born a boy or a girl, a sea turtle's sex is defined during egg incubation periods. Warmer temperatures lead to a higher proportion of females while cooler conditions result in more males. A new Florida Atlantic University study published by Endangered Species Research finds that conditions such as heavier rains and temperature shifts are impacting loggerhead...
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