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Humans Put Amazon to More Danger, Fires

2016-06-30 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: Illegal burning clears brush and small trees in order to clear land for agriculture in an already deforested section of Amazon rainforest on June 11, 2012 in Para state, Brazil. Although deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 80 percent since 2004, environmentalists fear recent changes to the Forest Code will lead to further destruction. Around 20 percent of the rainforest has already been destroyed. Threats to the Amazon rainforest are more wide-ranging than people realize, revealed a...

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Warming Arctic creates GHG danger zone

2016-06-27 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate New Network: Climate scientists have coolly established the mechanism by which a warming Arctic will accelerate the warming of the whole world. Its simple: as the permafrost warms and dries, it will release ever greater quantities of carbon dioxide from the Arctic soils. And those bits of tundra that warm, thaw and become increasingly soggy will release ever greater quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas (GHG) more short-lived but also a far more potent heat trap than CO2. The impact of the carbon dioxide,...

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Climate Change Real, Poses Danger to US National Parks - Obama

2016-06-26 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Slithersmusiczine: President Obama and his family arrived late Friday at the Yosemite Valley National Park as part of a weekend tour to celebrate the 100 anniversary of the creation of the US national park system. "Make no mistake, climate change is no longer just a threat - it's already a reality", he said from a lectern near Sentinel Bridge in Yosemite National Park. The president, first lady Michelle Obama and their teenage daughters, Sasha and Malia, got a glimpse of the parks' appeal as they toured an underground...

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Australia: The Barrier Reef is in danger but its still one of the worlds great sights

2016-06-19 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Anyone in the Cairns tourism industry who might be feeling a sense of panic about the largest destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef since divers first strapped on snorkels is not letting it show. The north-eastern Australian city a global holiday destination where the natural wonders name festoons everything from the signs greeting airport arrivals to the local casino is celebrating a storming tourist trade over the last 12 months. Nearly three million people visited in the year...

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