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Canada: Cracks in the house? Climate change dries the ground we stand on
2013-05-12 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ottawa Citizen: We learn from Saturdays paper that carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is at its highest concentration in the atmosphere in three million years. Over shouts of Were No. 1!, it might be opportune to mention an unexplored consequence of climate change: our houses are cracking up. Ottawa is built, with some exceptions, on a vast stretch of what the experts call sensitive clay soil, usually referred locally as leda, the old basin of the Champlain Sea. During a prolonged drought in...
Climate change forecast to shrink habitat of common plants, animals
2013-05-12 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The habitats of many common plants and animals will shrink dramatically this century unless governments act quickly to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Sunday after studying 50,000 species around the world. The scientists from Britain, Australia and Colombia said plants, amphibians and reptiles were most vulnerable as global temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change. About 57 percent of plants and 34 percent of animal species were likely to lose more than half the area...
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On the Brink: Climate Change Endangers Common Species
2013-05-12 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A wide variety of plants and animals are likely to become much less common if something isn't done to avert the worst effects of a warming climate, new research suggests. Under a "business as usual" scenario, where greenhouse gas emissions aren't significantly reduced, about 50 percent of plants and one-third of animals are likely to vanish from half of the places they are now found by 2080, said Rachel Warren, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England. These losses could lead to...
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Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says
2013-05-12 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world, according to a new study released Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study's authors looked at 50,000 common species. They found that more than half the plants and about a third of the animals could lose about 50% of their range by 2080 if the world continues its current course of rising greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change affects the availability of nutrition and water for animals...
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Climate change 'will make hundreds of millions homeless'
2013-05-12 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. That is the stark warning of economist and climate change expert Lord Stern following the news last week that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere had reached a level of 400 parts per million (ppm). Massive movements of people are likely to occur over the rest of the century because global temperatures are likely to rise to by up to...
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