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Report warns of severe future effects of climate change on the U.K.
2016-07-15 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys.Org: The contributors, who include Environment and Climate Change Lecturer Dr Ruth Wood and Professor of Ecology Richard Bardgett, say that action to tackle urgent threats including widespread flooding and new diseases must be taken promptly. The report also warns that wars and migration around the world caused by climate change could have significant consequences for the UK through disrupted trade and more overseas military intervention. The worst-case scenarios - which will become reality if action...
Humans are greening the planet, but the implications are complicated
2016-07-15 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Earths climate is changing in fact, it always changes. But in the current context of human influence, scientists try to decipher how much of the change is natural compared to human-induced. One clear way humans influence the Earth is through the biosystem. For instance, farming changes the biosystem. By removing natural growth and planting annual crops that are harvested, we change the system in a way that could in turn affect other parts of the Earth system. In addition, the use of nitrogen...
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What Happens to the U.S. Midwest When the Water's Gone?
2016-07-15 11:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The Ogallala aquifer turned the region into America's breadbasket. Now it, and a way of life, are being drained away. This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. "Whoa," yells Brownie Wilson, as the steel measuring tape I am feeding down the throat of an irrigation well on the Kansas prairie gets away from me and unspools rapidly into the depths below. The well, wide enough to fall into, taps into the Ogallala aquifer, the immense underground freshwater basin...
Rising sea levels will change the ecology of the Everglades
2016-07-14 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: The Florida Everglades is a swampy wilderness the size of Delaware. In some places along the road in southern Florida, it looks like tall saw grass to the horizon, a prairie punctuated with a few twisted cypress trees. The sky is the palest blue. But beneath the surface a different story is unfolding. Because of climate change and sea level rise, the ocean is starting to seep into the swampland. If the invasion grows worse, it could drastically change the Everglades, and a way of life for millions...
Pokemon Go unleashed in the UK
2016-07-14 10:53:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Pokemon Go - a mobile game that has become a global phenomenon - is released in the UK.
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