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Saving Wild Places in the 'Anthropocene'
2013-09-27 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: We're living in the epoch some scientists call the "Anthropocene" an age in which human influence touches nearly everything on the planet. Forty years after the signing of the Endangered Species Act, and nearly 50 years after the Wilderness Act, do we need to rethink how we protect nature? Environmental historian William Cronon and environmental geographer Paul Robbins discuss protecting wild places in the age of climate change.
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Wacky jet stream blame for wild North American weather
2013-09-25 20:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A lot of wild weather has afflicted North America this year: deluges in Colorado and Alberta, a heatwave in Alaska, and bitter cold in Florida. But there`s a high-altitude link between each of these unusual events which itself might be tied to climate change: erratic behavior by the polar jet stream. This famous current of air zips eastward at high altitudes from the continent`s West, normally passing over North America somewhere near Seattle. It is one of two jet streams in the Northern Hemisphere...
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NPR: Wild weather tied to unusual jet stream activity
2013-09-25 19:30:01| PortlandOnline
News story posted to npr.org September 25, 2013.
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Wild Weather Tied To Unusual Jet Stream Activity
2013-09-25 09:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: There has been a lot of extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere this year, including the recent torrential rains in Colorado, flooding in Europe, bitter cold in Florida and a heat wave in Alaska. And scientists say all of it is related to some odd behavior by the powerful air currents called the polar jet stream. The jet stream is "this ribbon of very fast moving winds that's high over our heads," says Jennifer Francis, a research scientist at the Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences at Rutgers...
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Bald eagle recovers from lead poisoning, returns to the wild
2013-09-24 21:03:48| Agriculture - Topix.net
In this May 31, 2013 photo, a young male bald eagle suffering from lead poisoning when he was rescued near Longview, Wash.
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