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Iraq's Famed Marshes Are DisappearingAgain
2015-07-09 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: As Saddam Hussein drained Iraq's famed marshes to punish the rebellious tribesmen who lived in them, Amjad Mohamed packed his few possessions, grabbed his fishing rod, and fled south to Basra with his extended family. For 12 years, they lived in one of the poor, neglected neighborhoods on the outskirts of Iraq's second largest city. He worked as a laborer in the oil fields and tried his hand at catching fish in nearby streams. All the while, though, Mohamed dreamed of returning home, and when...
As Louisianas marshes erode, so does the Houma Indians' way of life
2015-01-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Streams of oil slid into the bayous of southeastern Louisiana after the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010, damaging the marsh grasses, the wildlife and the livelihood of the 17,000-member Houma tribe. The pollution also weakened the marshes, accelerating the rapid disappearance of coastal land that is taking the Houma Indians culture with it. Now money that BP, the oil and gas company responsible for the spill, was forced to pay is beginning to flow to some groups and businesses to repair...
Study looks at Sandy's impacts on tidal marshes
2013-07-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For biologists who have been studying birds in East Coast tidal marshes, Superstorm Sandy couldn't have come at a better time. Just two months before Sandy pummeled New Jersey and New York last October, a research team completed the field work of a study looking at bird populations at risk due to the loss of tidal marshes from sea level rise. With that pre-storm data in hand, the researchers are now comparing the abundance of marsh plants and birds before and after Sandy in those same marshes, from...
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Marshes on the move: experts track rising sea levels along Sound
2013-07-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal News: The oak and hickory trees at the edge of a Long Island Sound salt marsh stand silent but could serve as future markers of climate change. Surrounded by thorns, poison ivy and some mosquitoes on a recent day, the trees positions were measured relative to the marsh grass and other wetland plants. Scientists expect to return in a decade with their tape measure and GPS unit and again calculate the distance between the woods and the marsh. The goal of their research is to see if the marshes are keeping...
Experts: BP Oil Spill Gone From Deep Ocean, but Remains in Marshes
2013-04-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Knox News: Scientists cannot find traces of oil in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico three years after the nations worst offshore spill, but residual toxins are still in the sediment along the coastal marshes, according to scientists at the University of Tennessee who have studied the effects of the spill. Bacteria in the Gulf was already adapted to consuming oil that naturally leaks from the ground into the water there, said Terry Hazen, a Governors Chair for Environmental Biotechnology at UT and Oak...