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Scientists Say Tax Meat to Help Cut Methane Emissions
2013-12-31 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Meat should be taxed to encourage people to eat less of it, so reducing the production of global warming gases from sheep, cattle and goats, according to a group of scientists. The scientists' analysis takes the contentious step of suggesting methane emissions be cut by pushing up the price of meat through a tax or emissions trading scheme. Several high-profile figures, from the chief of the UN's climate science panel to the economist Lord Stern, have previously advocated eating less meat to...
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Without Winter Freezes, Mangroves Are Marching North, Scientists Say
2013-12-31 04:36:45| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York times: Much of the Florida shoreline was once too cold for the tropical trees called mangroves, but the plants are now spreading northward at a rapid clip, scientists reported Monday. That finding is the latest indication that global warming, though still in its early stages, is already leading to ecological changes so large they can be seen from space. Along a 50-mile stretch of the central Florida coast south of St. Augustine, the amount of mangrove forest doubled between 1984 and 2011, the scientists...
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A Scientist's New Job: Keeping The Polar Bear's Plight Public
2013-12-28 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The Endangered Species Act, which turns 40 on Saturday, helped bring back iconic species such as the wolf, grizzly bear and bald eagle, after hunting, trapping and pesticides almost wiped those animals out. But a very different kind of threat - global warming - is pushing some species like the polar bear to the brink of extinction. One government biologist discovered the best way he could help save polar bears was to quit his job. A New Kind Of Conservation Problem Several years ago,...
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Antarctic expedition scientists trapped in ice
2013-12-25 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A team of scientists and members of the public who have been retracing the footsteps of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911 have become trapped in heavy ice a few miles from the coast of Antarctica. Passengers aboard the ship, the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, were informed on Christmas morning that the captain had issued a distress call to the Maritime Service Authority based in Falmouth in the UK earlier in the day. Three nearby icebreaker ships have been notified of the Shokalskiy's...
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Scientists call for labeling tar-sands oil
2013-12-24 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: For the past four years, European Union officials have been mulling a labeling system that would require fuel companies to tell their customers how much carbon pollution is produced by each of the products they sell. The idea is deeply unpopular with oil companies, which don`t want their customers thinking about such things every time they fill up their tanks. It`s also deeply unpopular with Canada. That`s because the country`s tar-sands oil is particularly dreadful for the climate, something...
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