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Canada: Bitumen negates climate change efforts
2013-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Leader Post: It's Alberta's biggest environmental battle - to reduce rising greenhouse gases from the oilsands - and former oil executive Eric Newell is running a global search for some silver bullets. Newell knows it's a race against time. As the U.S. and other industrialized countries are reducing carbon emissions to combat global warming, Alberta's greenhouse gas emissions just keep rising. Those emissions are a major reason why Canada won't meet its international target for 2020, a 17 per cent reduction...
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Evidence of Mass Extinction Associated With Climate Change 375 Million Years Ago
2013-12-14 02:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Members of a U.N.-sponsored research team with members from Appalachian State University's Department of Geology have found evidence for catastrophic oceanographic events associated with climate change and a mass extinction 375 million years ago that devastated tropical marine ecosystems. "The Late Devonian mass extinction was one of the five largest mass extinction events in the history of life," said Professor Johnny Waters, who is a co-leader of the five-year, U.N. International Geoscience...
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Climate change is moving the North pole and affecting Earth's rotation
2013-12-13 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: I thought I knew all the dreadful effects of climate change, but this new discovery has truly surprised me: "Climate change is causing the North Pole's location to drift, owing to subtle changes in Earth's rotation that result from the melting of glaciers and ice sheets." The entire Earth is tilting because this change. One example: The influx of fresh water from shrinking ice sheets also causes the planet to pitch over. Landerer and colleagues estimate that the melting of Greenland's ice is...
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Disease, Not Climate Change, Fueling Frog Declines in the Andes
2013-12-13 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A deadly fungus, and not climate change as is widely believed, is the primary culprit behind the rapid decline of frog populations in the Andes mountains, according to a new study published today in the journal Conservation Biology. Frogs living at higher elevations can tolerate increasing temperatures, researchers found, but their habitats fall within the optimal temperature range for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd, a harmful pathogen they have only encountered relatively recently. The...
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Climate change and slavery: the perfect storm?
2013-12-13 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For years, researchers in a variety of sectors have known two key concepts about the intersection of poverty and the environment. The first is that unsustainable use of natural resources can and does cause poverty. The second is that poverty can, and does, cause environmental degradation. But many anti-slavery activists and climate change researchers are making more connections. Increasingly it seems that there's a link between a damaged environment and growth in modern-day slavery. According...
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