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Australia: 400 native species in danger
2013-05-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The emu-wren, with its delicate filagreed tail, would go. So too would the master of disguise, the ground parrot - victims of increased fire in Australia's south-east. And the palm cockatoo could disappear from its tropical toehold. They are among 396 native birds likely to suffer as a result of climate change, according to the first analysis of global warming's effects on Australian birds. Of 1232 Australian bird species and subspecies, one-quarter would do badly when exposed to the effects...
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Wet spring won't extinguish fire danger
2013-05-26 11:15:37| Food - Topix.net
Fire meteorologists at the Rocky Mountain Coordination Center started staffing their facility seven days a week on Friday.
Ahead of June climate change talks, UN body urges coordinated response to CO2 danger zone
2013-05-14 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
UN News: In the face of "clear and present danger," the United Nations climate change body is warning that a stepped-up coordinated response is needed to fend off the impacts of climate change after the world`s carbon-dioxide concentrations surpassed their highest level in 4 million years. "The world must wake up and take note of what this means for human security, human welfare and economic development," said the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana...
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Australia: Great Barrier Reef is at risk even if it doesn't make Unesco's danger list
2013-05-13 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It might be regarded as some sort of sick joke that the Great Barrier Reef happens to nestle beside the heart of Australia's fossil fuel export boom. When the coal ships leave the Queensland ports, the two become one as the captains make passage through the 2300 kilometre/1430 mile-long reef the world's largest. Now environment groups and the United Nations World Heritage Committee have decided this joke just isn't funny any more. WWF Australia, the Australian Marine Conservation Society...
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Fatalities bring danger into focus in area towns
2013-05-03 07:41:09| Railroads - Topix.net
And last week Cody Ghostkeeper, 23, of Pritchard, B.C., was killed after being struck by a train in Olds while walking across a track at a marked crossing.
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