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Climate change puts ancestral farming indicators under stress Bolivia's highlands
2014-03-02 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For centuries, farmers in the fragile ecosystems of the high Andes have looked to the behavior of plants and animals to figure out what crops to grow and when. If reeds dried up in the late summer, rainless weather lay ahead, they believed. If the Andean fox made a howling appearance, abundant rains were thought sure to come. But increasingly erratic weather that scientists attribute to global warming is rendering their age-old methods less reliable, endangering harvests in a region where life...
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Climate change is preventing ocean heat from escaping in Antarctica: McGill study
2014-03-02 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: A new discovery by scientists at McGill University suggests that heat from the depths of the ocean is being trapped under the Antarctic ice shelf -- all the result of climate change. In the 1970s, researchers in Antarctica observed an open body of water the size of New Zealand within an ice pack in the Southern Ocean's Weddell Sea. Until now, they believed the phenomenon, known as the Weddell polynya, to be a rare occurrence. But researchers at McGill say that the polynya in Antarctica has...
Climate change fight in the balance at U.S. Supreme Court
2014-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: While the public sleeps through an unusually rough winter, the fight against climate change -- or the fight against excessive regulation, depending on the point of view -- is being waged at the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case involving greenhouse gases. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency had the power to regulate "greenhouse gases" emitted from vehicles. Justice Anthony Kennedy, a key swing vote, joined the four liberals to form the...
Climate Change Preparation Strategy: Open for Public Comment
2014-02-28 18:55:30| PortlandOnline
Green infrastructure is part Portland's strategy to prepare for the impacts of climate change.
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Is climate change behind California's dry spell?
2014-02-28 16:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: California's parched landscapes are receiving a much-needed soaking this week as heavy rainstorms roll across the West Coast. The break in the state's dry spell is due to a weakening of an atmospheric anomaly that has been hovering above the northern Pacific Ocean. Dubbed the "ridiculously resilient ridge" by a Stanford graduate student, this enormous region of atmospheric high pressure has been squatting off the coast of western Canada since January 2013, diverting storms northward, away from California...
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