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Polar bears can't adapt melting Arctic, will waste away
2015-07-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Polar bears have been one of the species hit hardest by climate change over the last decade, experiencing population declines up to 40 percent in some areas. Even so, scientists have long held out hope the mammals might adapt in some way to their melting Arctic habitat and reboundor at least stabilize in numbersas the world continues to warm. But new research published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science deals a blow to that optimism. Eight U.S.-based scientists tested a leading hypothesis...
Sea Warming Leads to Ban on Fishing in the Arctic
2015-07-17 02:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The United States and four other nations that border the Arctic Ocean pledged on Thursday to prohibit commercial fishing in the international waters of the Arctic until more scientific research could be done on how warming seas and melting ice are affecting fish stocks. The agreement came as an annual report on the worlds climate released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the American Meteorological Society said that temperatures on the ocean surface reached the highest...
Al Gore: Obamas Plan for Arctic Drilling Is Insane
2015-07-16 19:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Thursday criticized President Barack Obama for allowing fossil fuel drilling in the Arctic, calling a recently approved Royal Dutch Shell project "insane" in a video interview with the Guardian. "I think the Deepwater Horizon spill was warning enough," Gore said of offshore drilling while speaking in Toronto with the Guardian's environmental correspondent Suzanne Goldberg. "The conditions are so hostile to human activity [in the Arctic] ... I think it`s a...
Arctic deal bans North Pole fishing
2015-07-16 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The US and Russia are among five countries to have signed a deal to prevent commercial fishing in the melting Arctic sea ice near the North Pole. Norway, Canada and Denmark also backed the agreement signed in Oslo. Although the central Arctic is unlikely to have fish stocks for some time, scientists believe they will arrive as thinning ice melts in the summer. Several neighbouring nations have submitted claims to Arctic territory. A 21-member UN arbitration panel is considering the competing...
Arctic nations to bar fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the north pole
2015-07-16 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The United States, Russia and other Arctic nations signed an agreement on Thursday to bar their fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the north pole. The accord, also signed in Oslo by the ambassadors of Canada, Norway and Denmark, is a response to global warming, which is melting sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean, an area the size of the Mediterranean. The deal had been delayed by more than a year by tensions over Ukraine. The central Arctic probably has no commercial fish stocks...
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