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Giant Redwoods Growth Spurt Tied to Climate Change: Study
2013-08-18 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: California's beloved giant redwood trees are in the midst of an unprecedented growth spurt, according to a climate study released Wednesday. The ancient trees have produced more wood over the past century than they have during any other time in their lives, according to findings by the Save the Redwoods League and a team of renowned scientists. The $3 million four-year study, called the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative, was the most intensive research project ever conducted on the giant...
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Climate change to trigger frequent, severe heatwaves
2013-08-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: Climate change is set to trigger more frequent and severe heatwaves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere, a new study has warned. Extreme heat waves such as those that hit the US in 2012 and Australia in 2009 dubbed three-sigma events by the researchers are projected to cover double the amount of global land by 2020 and quadruple by 2040, researchers said. Meanwhile, more-severe summer heat waves classified as five-sigma events will...
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Climate Change Boosts Disease Spread
2013-08-17 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Some like it hot: more protozoans can infect the monarch butterfly as climates become milder; nematode parasites get two chances to infect caribou and reindeer as a result of Arctic warming; and coral pathogens become more active with warmer seas. Humans can and should learn from all these interactions, write Sonia Altizer, of the University of Georgia in the US, and her colleagues. She argues in Science that climate change is affecting the spread of disease worldwide. Human risk of disease...
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The latest climate change horror: Massive swamp rats
2013-08-17 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Week Magazine: Then consider the nutria, a huge, "semiaquatic" rodent that looks like a cross between a beaver and a sewer rat, but with bright orange incisors. Also know as swamp rats, nutria on average weigh between 15 and 22 pounds; in the U.S., they typically reside in swamps in the deep South where they can always be near water. That could all change soon, according to the United States Geological Survey, as a population boom and rising temperatures are spurring the varmints to venture farther from their...
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State officials and community leaders discuss impact of climate change on New Jersey
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsroom Jersey: Today, community leaders, academics, and local, state and federal officials all gathered for a press conference at Mad Dog Morgans to highlight the devastating impacts of extreme weather and climate change on Brigantine, Atlantic County and throughout the state. They greeted the I Will Act On Climate Bus Tour as it makes its first New Jersey stop on a 27-state tour. Todays press conference comes on the heels of President Barack Obamas historic national climate change plan announcement...
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