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Obama and Nordic Leaders Agree Economic Activity in Arctic Must Pass Climate Test
2016-05-16 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: President Obama and leaders from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden agreed on Friday that all future commercial activity in the Arctic will adhere to strict environmental standards and climate goals. This will include oil and gas drilling and is similar to the agreement signed by the U.S. and Canada earlier this year. Denmark and the U.S. also announced a partnership to develop offshore wind. Leaders from the US and Nordic countries make important commitments to #Arctic #conservation...
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Arctic Warming Is Shrinking This Adorable Shorebird
2016-05-12 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The migratory red knot is getting smaller due to climate change, making it harder for the threatened birds to find the best food. The red knot shorebird is a tough, long-distance flier that migrates yearly from the Arctic into the Southern Hemisphere and back. For decades, the bird has been at risk because its food sources, such as crab eggs, have declined in the feeding grounds along its migratory route. Now an alarming discovery by an international team of scientists, published this week...
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Shrinking Arctic bird suffers double hit from global warming: study
2016-05-12 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Red knots, a type of bird that makes one of the longest annual migrations, are shrinking because climate change in their Arctic nesting grounds makes life harder during their winters in Africa, scientists say. Snows in Arctic Russia now melt earlier in spring and many red knot chicks hatch too late for the annual peak of insect food spurred by the thaw, according to their report on Thursday, one of the first to link the impact of warming to a single species. That food shortage means the shorebirds,...
Big Oil Abandons the Arctic, Obama Under Pressure to Do More to Protect the Region
2016-05-12 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Sometimes it is hard to find good news on the climate. Take a quick look at a couple of todays stories: According to Australian researchers, five tiny Pacific islands, which are part of the Solomon islands, have completely disappeared due to rising sea levels, in what is being described as the first scientific confirmation of the impact of climate change on coastlines in the Pacific. Another six islands have had large swathes of land washed into the sea too. Elsewhere, one in five of the...
How Arctic spring kills birds in Africa
2016-05-12 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: These are red knots. Credit: Eldar Rahimberdiev, Mikhail Soloviev. Having analyzed the data collected for more than three decades, scientists managed to show that the effects of climate changes in the Arctic may come out on…
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