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Climate Change Is the Tragedy of the Global Commons
2014-04-22 06:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: I'm not watching Years of Living Dangerously, Showtime's nine-part series on climate change. I'm not going to read Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, despite its great reviews. When I see a long article in The New York Times about melting glaciers or flooded coastal plains or disappearing species or deforestation or desertification, I skip it. Why? Because I already know what's happening and about to happen. Reading the fine print is just going to make me feel sadder...
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Setbacks Aside, Climate Change Is Finding Its Way Into the World's Classrooms
2014-04-20 18:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: From Mauritius to Manitoba, climate change is slowly moving from the headlines to the classroom. Schools around the world are beginning to tackle the difficult issue of global warming, teaching students how the planet is changing and encouraging them to think about what they can do to help slow that process. Strapped school budgets, concerns about overburdening teachers and political opposition to what in some places is a contentious subject have complicated the spread of lessons on climate change....
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With Climate Change, Wildfires Getting Worse in the West
2014-04-20 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Across the western United States, wildfires grew bigger and more frequent in the past 30 years, according to a new study that blames climate change and drought for the worsening flames. "It's not just something that is localized to forest or grasslands or deserts," said lead study author Phil Dennison, a geographer at the University of Utah. "Every region in the West is experiencing an increase in fire. These fire trends are very consistent with everything we know about how climate change should...
Plants that regulate sprouting tackle climate change well
2014-04-20 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: lants with the ability to regulate the timing of germination in response to environmental cues are more likely to spin off new species and are better at dealing with weather threats from climate change. Plants whose seeds put off sprouting until conditions are more certain give rise to more species, a study said. Plants whose seeds have since lost the ability may be prone to extinction under future climate change, especially if the timing of sprouting is no longer in tune with their environment,...
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Climate change increasing massive wildfires in West
2014-04-19 17:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Massive wildfires are on the increase in the Western USA due to rising temperatures and worsening drought from climate change, and the trend could continue in the decades to come, new research suggests. Overall, the number of large wildfires increased by a rate of seven fires a year from 1984 to 2011, while the total area damaged by fire increased at a rate of nearly 90,000 acres per year, according to the study, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical...
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