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Climate Change Adaptation: A Race Against Time
2013-05-07 21:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Adaptation and mitigation. Identified by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and by scientists as the two major responses to address the problem, these were also the twin preoccupations of a climate change conference held recently in Dhaka. Some 200 environmentalists, scientists, policymakers, academics, government and non-government officials as well as international development partners converged on the capital city of Bangladesh to discuss ways community-based adaptation...
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Sex Of Turtles Changing As Climate Change Warms Planet
2013-05-07 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: If you're a male painted turtle, global warming might sound great at first: A new study suggests it will mean more females to mate with and fewer male rivals to fend off. But, as usual with climate change, every silver lining has a cloud. In this case, too many females could render the species incapable of reproducing by century's end. Painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) live in freshwater habitats across North America, where the sex of their unhatched young is determined by ambient temperature....
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Climate change wiped out Australia's megafauna
2013-05-07 06:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Throughout the Ice Age that characterised our planet for much of the last two million years or so mainland Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea formed a single landmass -- Sahul. It was a strange and often hostile place at times much drier and as much as nine degrees cooler than now with a sometimes Throughout the Ice Age that characterised our planet for much of the last two million years or so mainland Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea formed a single landmass -- Sahul. It was a strange...
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Climate Change, Not Human Activity, Led to Megafauna Extinction
2013-05-07 03:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Most species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia had disappeared by the time people arrived, a major review of the available evidence has concluded. The research challenges the claim that humans were primarily responsible for the demise of the megafauna in a proposed "extinction window" between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, and points the finger instead at climate change. An international team led by the University of New South Wales, and including researchers at the University of...
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Jerry Brown blames climate change for state's early fire season
2013-05-06 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Gov. Jerry Brown put the states early wildfire season in global terms Monday, saying the state would have to grow accustomed to more forest fires as a consequence of climate change. Browns remarks at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protections aviation management unit in Sacramento came as firefighters in Ventura County said they expected to have the 28,000-acre Springs fire fully contained by Tuesday. State firefighters have responded to about twice the average number of wildfires...
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