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Climate change is 'killing penguin chicks' say researchers
2014-01-29 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Penguin chicks in Argentina are dying as a direct consequence of climate change, according to new research. Drenching rainstorms and extreme heat are killing the young birds in significant numbers. The study, conducted over 27 years, looked at climate impacts on the world's biggest colony of Magellanic penguins, which live on the arid Punta Tombo peninsula. The research has been published in the journal Plos One. About 200,000 pairs of these penguins make their nests on the peninsula...
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FEMA: Caught Between Climate Change and Congress
2014-01-27 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Thanks to climate change, extreme weather disasters have hammered the United States with increasing frequency in recent years--from drought and wildfires to coastal storms and flooding. It is perhaps surprising, then, that the U.S. agency in charge of preparing for and responding to these disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), doesn't account for climate change in most of its budget planning and resource allocation or in the National Flood Insurance Program it administers....
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Climate change washing away Pacific villages
2014-01-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Solomon Star: Standing on a remote coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean watching children play, it was deeply saddening to realise they will soon have to leave a place that has been home to their people for thousands of years. Ontong Java, the most northerly part of Solomon Islands, is on the frontline of climate change. The rising seas are eating away the land and growing food is now almost impossible as salt poisons swamp taro, the staple crop. After 2000 years of settlement, it is increasingly likely that Ontong...
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Australia: Climate change is spoken of in hushed tones, but it wasn't always this way
2014-01-27 04:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There is a term that is not generally used in polite company in the bush. That term is climate change. To an outsiders eyes, it might seem to be counterintuitive. Here are people whose living is mostly dependent on the vagaries of the weather. Yet you will hear more conversation about climate change at a city dinner party than a lazy Sunday afternoon lunch in the bush. The publicly reported attitudes to climate change in rural Australia have been just as confusing. That is, rural Australians...
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Climate change: Rainforest absorption CO2 becoming erratic
2014-01-26 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Tropical rainforests are becoming less able to cope with rising global temperatures according to a study that has looked back over the way they have responded to variations in temperature in the past half a century. For each 1C rise in temperature, tropical regions now release about 2 billion extra tonnes of carbon-containing gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, compared to the same amount of tropical warming in the 1960s and 1970s, the study found. Rising levels...
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