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A savior of tree species
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Detroit News: David Milarch believes he died and came back to life. And the reason was God had a mission for him. The mission was simple if grandiose: Clone the biggest trees and cover the world with them. The north Michigan nurseryman had little money, education or experience with cloning. Few people had ever tried to reproduce such old trees, which scientists said was improbable. Yet, in fits and starts, he has gradually cloned 140 species of trees across the United States, including ones that were...
Seabirds are Indicator Species for Climate Change
2013-09-03 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: It has been said that seabirds are key indicators of the impact of climate change on the worlds oceans. How exactly? In Antarctica, for example, seabirds depend on ice: Seabirds eat fish, which eat krill. The krill eat algae, and the algae grow underneath sea ice. With warming oceans, and less ice, there will major consequences for this food chain. In an effort to quantify and model how seabirds will fare in the face of climate change, Stephanie Jenouvrier, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic...
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Proposal Weakens Endangered Species Protections From Fracking on Public Lands
2013-08-30 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Center for Biological Diversity: The Obama administration has proposed a new rule that would scale back the requirement that federal agencies fully track the harms inflicted on endangered species when large-scale plans are developed and carried out on federal public lands. As a result, the cumulative impacts on rare species from actions like oil and gas drilling will be discounted in the decision-making process--putting hundreds of plants and animals at greater risk of extinction. The change is being proposed by the U.S. Fish and...
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Fracking Wastewater Spill Kills Rare Fish in KY, Puts Entire Species at Risk
2013-08-30 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently published a peer-reviewed journal article that discusses the results of the investigation into a 2007 fracking wastewater spill in Kentucky. Fracking wastewater that was being stored in open air pits (a practice that can lead to toxic spills) overflowed into Kentucky`s Acorn Fork Creek and left an orange-red substance, contaminating the creek with hydrochloric acid, dissolved minerals and metals, and...
Climate change mitigation essential for even the most common species
2013-08-30 12:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: It is well known that climate change will impact a great many species and ecosystems. The ranges of many species will change, ecosystem services will be disrupted, and biodiversity will be lost. But a new study has asked previously overlooked questions: What will happen if we try to stop climate change? What benefits would this bring in terms of avoiding biodiversity loss? And what will happen if we do nothing? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that, should temperatures reach...
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