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Beetles ravaging Mount Rushmore drain budgets as West warms
2014-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Beetles are obliterating forests throughout Colorado and the West, draining budgets as property values decline and threatening tourism at national parks, including the home of Mount Rushmore. Voters in Colorado communities raised taxes to protect ski resorts that bring in $3 billion annually to the economy. The pine beetles, each the size of a rice grain, have devoured 25 percent of the woods in South Dakota's Black Hills, where the mountain with massive carvings of Presidents George Washington,...
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Food quality to suffer as climate warms, report says
2014-05-21 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Crops grown by many of the nation's farmers have a lower nutritional content than they once did, according to the report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Research indicates that higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reduced the protein content in wheat, for example. And the international Rice Research Institute has warned that the quality of rice available to consumers will decrease as temperatures rise, the report notes. The U.S. should embrace research into animal biology...
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Hurricanes reaching peak strength farther north as globe warms, tropics expand
2014-05-15 01:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: As the Earth`s oceans have warmed over the last three decades, the grounds for destructive hurricanes have crept northward finds a new study, published by three of the world`s leading tropical weather experts. This observed poleward jog could reflect the first "robust" signal that the build-up of greenhouse gases from human activity is influencing tropical storms, the authors say. Identifying a firm connection between hurricane activity and manmade global warming has proven elusive. The 2013 Intergovernmental...
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Canadas Climate Warms to Corn as Grain Belt Shifts North
2014-04-15 00:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The snow is piled waist-deep outside the Southern Manitoba Convention Centre as more than 400 farmers gather to consider the once-unthinkable: growing corn on the Canadian prairie. At one end of the packed auditorium last month in Morris, home of the Red River Wild hockey club, an Ohio farmer brought in by DuPont Co. (DD:US) is making a presentation with a slide that reads Ear Count 101. At the other end, Deere & Co. is showing off tractors and other equipment from a booth while Daryl Gross explains...
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A more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, methane emissions leap as Earth warms
2014-03-28 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: While carbon dioxide is typically painted as the bad boy of greenhouse gases, methane is roughly 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas. New research in the journal Nature indicates that for each degree that Earth's temperature rises, the amount of methane entering the atmosphere from microorganisms dwelling in lake sediment and freshwater wetlands -- the primary sources of the gas -- will increase several times. As temperatures rise, the relative increase of methane emissions will outpace...
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