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Antarctica Penguins to Disappear by 2100: Study
2016-07-09 11:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Micro Finance Monitor: A NASA-funded study by University of Delaware projected that Adelie penguins across Antarctica will disappear by the end of this century owing to melting caused by climate change. An Adélie penguin cares for its chicks. CREDIT: University of Delaware/Megan Cimino They said approximately 30 percent of current Adélie colonies may decline by 2060, and approximately 60 percent of the present population might be dwindling by 2099. However, the penguins at more southerly sites in Antarctica may be...
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Climate Change to Blame for Deaths in 2003 Heat Wave, New Study Says
2016-07-08 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The first attempt by scientists to assess the role of climate change in the deadly European heat waves of 2003 has attributed about half of the 1,050 deaths in Paris and London that summer to the effects of global warming. Tens of thousands of people, many of them elderly, died in France and other European nations in one of the most notable extreme weather events since the turn of the century. The implication of the study, published Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is that...
Wind, Not Water, to Blame for Drought, Says Study
2016-07-08 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kqed: Since California`s most recent drought began more than four years ago, scientific studies have been helping us better understand the causes and implications. We know now that a lack of precipitation has largely been caused by a very stubborn high-pressure system sitting off the West coast dubbed at one time the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge. Weve also learned that high-pressure systems like this may be the kind of thing well see more of with climate change. A new study published in Geophysical...
Study links heatwave deaths in London and Paris to climate change
2016-07-08 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Carbon Brief: Study links heatwave deaths in London and Paris to climate change In 2003, more than 70,000 people across Europe died in a sweltering heatwave that spanned much of the summer. France was among the worst-affected countries, with 15,000 deaths in August alone. In the UK, the summer saw more than 2,000 heat-related fatalities. A new first-of-a-kind study works out how many of the deaths in Paris and London are down to the heatwave being intensified by human-caused climate change. The findings...
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Climate change is raising peat fire risk study
2016-07-08 10:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Scientists in Canada have confirmed an unexpected hazard in the world of climate change: the subterranean fire. Peat bogs massive stores of atmospheric carbon, held in partly-decomposed fibrous plant material could catch fire and smoulder below the surface as they dry out in a regime of global warming. It was dried peatlands that fuelled a blaze in Slave Lake, Alberta, in 2011, and the devastating forest fires around Fort McMurray this year also ignited peatland alongside the only highway...
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