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Scientists warn Everest glaciers at risk of disappearing
2015-05-27 12:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Glaciers in the Everest region could shrink at least 70 percent or even disappear entirely by the end of the century as a result of climate change, scientists warned on Wednesday. Researchers in Nepal, the Netherlands and France studied weather patterns on the roof of the world and then created a model of conditions on Everest to determine the future impact of rising temperatures on its glaciers. "The worst-case scenario shows a 99 percent loss in glacial mass... but even if we start to slow...
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Deadly heatwaves will be more frequent coming decades, say scientists
2015-05-25 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The heatwave that scorched eastern Europe in 2010, killing thousands of people and devastating crops, was the worst since records began and led to the warmest summer on the continent for at least 500 years, a new scientific analysis has revealed. The research also suggests that "mega-heatwaves", such as the prolonged extreme temperatures that struck western Europe in 2003 will become five to 10 times more likely over the next 40 years, occurring at least once a decade. But the 2010 heatwave was...
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Scientists create mice with a major genetic cause of ALS and FTD
2015-05-22 19:10:18| Biotech - Topix.net
Scientists at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida created a novel mouse that exhibits the symptoms and neurodegeneration associated with the most common genetic forms of frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , both of which are caused by a mutation in the a gene called C9ORF72. The study was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in the journal Science .
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Canadian Scientists Say the Government Is Muzzling Them and They Want It to Stop
2015-05-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Hundreds of union activists representing Canada's scientists held protests in cities across the country this week, demanding the federal government end what they see as rampant political interference of scientific research. There would have been thousands of government scientists joining them, according to the unions, but they worried that if they went, their jobs could become casualties of the Canadian government's so-called "war on science". "Our scientists are scared," said Catherine Gagnon,...
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El Nio could bring drought and famine in west Africa, scientists warn
2015-05-21 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A global weather phenomenon could cause a famine in the Sahel this year by combining with already dry conditions to create a double whammy for the region, scientists and aid groups have warned. Professor Adam Scaife, a long term forecaster at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, said models now agreed an El Nio event was likely and the first impacts may be felt as early as June. El Nio is caused by a reversal of trade winds in the Pacific that allow warm water to spread east, across the ocean....
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