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Climate Change Affecting Polar Bears, Only Those With The Most Fat Thrive
2013-03-20 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Recent climate induced changes to Arctic polar bears environment is affecting their habits and ability to survive, with the bears having to rely more and more on internal fat reserves, according to a new paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The bears are having particular difficulty adjusting to the shifting sea ice dynamics. In the past, sea ice has remained throughout the Arctic summer months, but now it is almost completely melting and refreezing each year. "This poses an interesting...
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Australia: Climate change politics is a values problem
2013-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Many climate sceptics do not trust environmentalists because they consider them "borderline communists" who want to curtail people's freedom, a leading US social scientist says. Speaking on Wednesday night, the University of Michigan's Andy Hoffman said US global warming sceptics had "a serious distrust of the political ideology behind its proponents". "The fear is that environmentalists are left-leaning, they are socialist, borderline communists, and they are using the government to try to...
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Australia: Flood plans ignore climate change: expert
2013-03-20 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: PLANNING laws and flood mitigation strategies in Australia don't take into account the future impacts of climate change, leaving communities at risk from greater and more frequent extreme weather, experts warn. During an online forum on Wednesday, Australian National University's Karen Hussey presented the findings from a review of four major flood reports from Queensland and Victoria. Her team analysed how effective flood mitigation strategies were and compared them to initiatives in China,...
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'Fattest' polar bears survive climate change
2013-03-20 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The polar bears of Hudson Bay, Canada migrate onto land in the summer when the sea ice melts, relying on fat reserves to survive until the sea re-freezes in late November or early December. During the winter and spring months they use the sea ice to hunt their prey of seals. But the bears were coming to land earlier and leaving later in recent years as a result of climate change which was reducing the ice, researchers writing in the Journal of Animal Ecology from the British Ecological Society...
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Geography taught me climate change is unjust and inspired me to fight
2013-03-20 02:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: My name is Esha, I am a secondary school student from the Heathland School in Hounslow and a member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC). Geography has always fascinated me. Volcanoes, globalisation, development, you name it. It's the one subject that has left me with the desire to find out more. In fact, it inspired me enough to appreciate that not only is the Earth a beautiful place, but that it is one in desperate need of our help. More importantly, it inspired me to get out there and do...
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