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Environmental crime growing at 'alarming pace': police body
2016-06-04 02:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Criminal gangs are plundering the Earth's natural resources faster than previously thought, with the value of environmental crimes estimated to be as high as $258 billion annually, U.N. and police officials said on Saturday. The value of stolen natural resources - including fish, timber, gold and other minerals - has risen by 26 percent in the last year, according to a report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Interpol, the largest international police organization. "Environmental...
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Grizzlies and polar bears are mating alarming reason
2016-05-25 13:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Villages Suntimes: So for now, scientists are taking the lead from media reports and calling hybrid bears with a polar bear father a "pizzly" and one with a grizzly bear father a "grolar". Female grizzlies tend not to stray far from their home ranges, and male polar bears don't usually creep into grizzly habitats. Unfortunately, as the breeding between the two bears becomes more common, it is likely that the polar bear will lose out on genetic diversity. Hybrids are known either as a grolar or a pizzly, depending...
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Elephants Wiped Out on Alarming Scale in Southern Africa
2016-04-06 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A chunk of territory in southern Africa about the size of France has long been considered one of the last strongholds of the African elephant. The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, better known as KAZA, straddles Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe and was believed to hold as many as 250,000 elephants. But all is not well there. The latest statistics from the Great Elephant Census, an ambitious elephant-counting project led by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen's private...
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Soil crisis brought about by climate change may hit global food production, claims alarming new research
2016-04-06 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The world is facing a soil crisis that could badly hit food production, according to alarming new research. A 17-year study into the effect of global warming on microbes the tiny bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms that determine soil health reveals them to be far less adaptable to changing conditions than expected. It raises concerns the microbes will not be able to carry out essential functions, such as breaking down leaves and other organic matter in a process which converts them...
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The alarming science driving much higher sea level projections for this century
2016-03-31 15:08:02| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For many scientists studying Antarctica, and particularly the vulnerable West Antarctic ice sheet, a major new study significantly increasing expectations for sea-level rise is the culmination of a large body of prior research -- combined with alarming recent observations. The study, just published in Nature, is based on an improved understanding of past warm eras in Earths history that featured much higher seas. By creating advanced computer simulations of how Antarcticas ice melts and flows...
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