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Role of animals in mitigating climate change varies across tropical forests
2016-04-25 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, sheds important new light on the role seed dispersal by animals plays in mitigating climate change, and how this role can vary in tropical forests across the world. In tropical forests of the Americas, Africa and South Asia, a large majority of tree species depend on animals for seed dispersal. Tree species with large seeds attain greater adult sizes than those having smaller seeds. Using simulations, the researchers showed that declines...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Makes Climate Change Speech UN Gala: No More Excuses
2016-04-25 00:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inqusitr: During the United Nations gala celebrating the signing of the climate change treaty, Leonardo DiCaprio took it upon himself to speak a few more words addressing the dire need for action against climate threats. "Adding Hollywood stardust to the signing ceremony of the Paris Agreement on counteracting global warming, the Oscar-winning actor, who has previously spoken at the UN on climate change, gave an impassioned five-minute address first quoting Abraham Lincoln and then giving real examples...
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Climate change education appears inconsistent in Iowa
2016-04-24 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: Iowa teachers may be split on how to educate students about climate change despite strong scientific evidence of human-caused climate change, an IowaWatch survey with the Cedar Falls High School Tiger Hi-Line newspaper shows. Students also have mixed opinions on the subject, the survey showed. Results of the survey of 133 science teachers from 54 public and private schools and one Area Education Agency in Iowa are anecdotal because the sample was not large enough to demonstrate a trend. But they...
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Global Warming: For Americans, The Pleasant Phase Of Climate Change Will End Soon, Study Says
2016-04-24 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: Climate change has meant global warming for most Americans, making them less inclined to see the need for action on the issue, so says a new study by researchers at two U.S. universities. By the time the public feels the sting of climate change later this century, it will be too late to put policies in place that will have any effect. Patrick J. Egan, an associate professor in NYU`s Wilf Family Department of Politics, authored the study with Megan Mullin, an associate professor at Duke University`s...
Five arresting images of climate change impossible to ignore
2016-04-24 18:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Climate change is the single biggest threat to polar bear survival, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The animals depend on seasonal sea ice, which they use as a platform to hunt seals. Polar bears have been losing weight as Arctic sea ice melts, a recent study out of Canada found. Female polar bears weighed about 10 percent less in 2009 than they did in 1984, scientists found. As retreating sea ice shrinks their habitat, starvation threatens the species. Drought...
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