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Climate change hastens extinction of pawikan
2016-05-29 11:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Mirror: Climate change is partly being blamed for the dwindling global population of marine turtles. Conservation experts in the Turtle Islands Wildlife Sanctuary (TIWS) suggest that the problem could be worse. They said El Nio and beach erosion caused by climate change-triggered effects, such as sea-level rise and storm surges because of the intensifying typhoons, might hasten the extinction of these mysterious creatures of the sea. The downtrend in the number of nesting marine turtles and eggs in...
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Australia covered up UN climate change fears for Tasmania forests and Kakadu
2016-05-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A draft UN report on climate change which was scrubbed of all reference to Australia over fears it could deter visitors to the Great Barrier Reef, also outlined possible threats to the Tasmania wilderness and Kakadu. The draft report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef, which described climate change as the biggest long-term threat to the [reef] today, and to its ecosystems services, biodiversity, heritage values and tourism economy. It concluded that without a comprehensive response...
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Watching Worlds Sink -- Witnessing Climate Change In Pacific
2016-05-29 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: These pictures are part of a piece called Warm Waters -- a long-term, ongoing photography project documenting how man made global warming is an immediate problem for some of the world's smallest nations and countries. Sokhin first started to think about the effects of climate change while on assignment in Papua New Guinea, where he visited a region known as Manus Island. He had worked on several assignments about deforestation and climate change, but it was a small island off Manus -- half eroded...
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Climate change threatens U.N. World Heritage sites
2016-05-29 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bend Bulletin: The catastrophes seem like the stuff filmmaker Roland Emmerichs dreams are made of: In the United States, Yellowstone National Park morphs from thick woods to sparser brushland in the aftermath of frequent and furious forest fires. In Italy, Venice sinks beneath a swelling Adriatic Sea. In England, Stonehenge tumbles to the ground when the local mole and badger populations explode, and their burrows weaken the earth beneath the 5,000-year-old rock monuments. None of these disasters are certain...
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Canada: Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May talks climate change in Muskoka
2016-05-29 01:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says Canada can do much better when it comes to reducing carbon emissions. She was in Bracebridge on Saturday for the Muskoka Summit on the Environment. The theme of the summit was Solutions for a Warming World. She and several other environmental experts spoke at the summit. May says climate change is a problem everyone should take personally. Some already are. This might sound radical but did you know that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia announced...
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