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Marine reserves enhance resilience to climate change
2013-12-02 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study, led by a University of Southampton scientist, highlights the potential for fish communities in marine reserves to resist climate change impacts better than communities on fished coasts. The study, which is published in the journal Nature Climate Change, involved an Australian research team from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Marine and Atmospheric Research. The...
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The Nature Conservancy Releases Country-Level Temperature And Precipitation Data For Climate Resilience And Adaptation Planning
2013-11-25 03:56:04| pollutiononline News Articles
The Nature Conservancy has released a newcountry-level datasetfor its online Climate Wizard mapping tool that enables users to visualize future climate conditions using the most recent modeled data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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PJM Grid 20/20 Focuses On Grid Resilience, Explores Cyber And Physical Security
2013-11-21 18:56:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Hardening the grid and becoming more resilient against possible future threats to the electricity system such as super storms or cyberattacks will come about through developing a culture of resilience. read more
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physical
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Typhoon resilience the importance of protecting power supply
2013-11-13 01:00:00| Power Technology
The latest disaster in the Philippines is another tragic reminder of the need for innovative power solutions both post and pre-freak weather emergencies.
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supply
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protecting
Healthy Rivers Build Greater Resilience to Climate Change
2013-11-08 18:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Climate change is bringing more extreme floods and droughts, and large dams can compound the impacts of both. Dam failures, levees that cut off rivers from their floodplains and hydropower projects that lay idle in times of drought reduce the ability of societies to cope with the impacts of a changing climate. The new report, Civil Society Guide to Healthy Rivers and Climate Resilience, by International Rivers explains how rivers strengthen climate resilience, how large dams increase our vulnerability...
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