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The Air-Cargo Freighter as Endangered Species
2014-03-31 13:36:12| Air Courier - Topix.net
The industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by the advent of flashy new widebody passenger planes.
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Invasive species in waterways on rise due to climate change
2014-03-26 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: One of the most serious threats to global biodiversity and the leisure and tourism industries is set to increase with climate change according to new research by Queen's University Belfast. Researchers at Queen's have found that certain invasive weeds, which have previously been killed off by low winter temperatures, are set to thrive as global temperatures increase. The team based at Quercus, Northern Ireland's centre for biodiversity and conservation science research, predicts that invasive...
Endangered desert species cling to existence
2014-03-23 22:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Under a canopy of gleaming stars, Janet Foley made her way across a dab of marshlands surrounded by harsh Mojave Desert terrain, her headlamp fixed on a live trap the size of a loaf of bread. She peered inside, smiled and said, "Hi there, cutie." The creature staring back at her was a federally endangered Amargosa vole, one of the rarest mammals in North America. Foley recorded its vital statistics, attached an identification tag to its right ear and released it back into the wild. The vole...
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Massive desert solar plant opens, already a threatened species
2014-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The day begins early at the Ivanpah solar power plant. Long before the sun rises, computers aim five square miles of mirrors to reflect the first rays of dawn onto one of three 40-story towers rising above the desert floor. The 356,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door, focus so much light on the towers that they pulsate with a blinding white light. Also Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth After a building boom, solar energy's prospects now aren't as sunny Saving desert tortoises...
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Global Warming Pushes Native Plants to New Habitats Leaving Dependent Species at Risk
2014-02-17 21:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News: By 2100, vegetation patterns will be shifting in almost half the land area of the planet, according to new research in the journal Global and Planetary Change. Song Feng of the University of Arkansas in the U.S. and colleagues in Nebraska, China and South Korea have taken a long cool look at what the projected patterns of warming are likely to do to the planets mosaic of climate types. And they predict dramatic changes. Climate type is a century-old idea useful for making sense of geographical...
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