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Globalization is worsening the effects of climate change, study says
2016-06-12 03:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Cantech Letter: A new study shows that economic losses caused by climate change felt in one part of the world are producing ripple effects everywhere else, thanks to globalization. Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and Columbia University in the United States looked at manufacturing and production data in 186 countries covering 26 global industries, ranging from mining to textiles and telecommunications, and matched up results with existing research on temperature effects...
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Study finds native Olympia oysters more resilient to ocean acidification
2016-06-12 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Unlike the commercially raised Pacific oysters, Olympia oysters don't begin making their shells until 2-3 days after fertilization and make them far more slowly, which helps protect them from corrosive water during this critical development phase, said Oregon State University's George Waldbusser, principal investigator on the project. Pacific oysters, on the other hand, only have a six-hour window to develop their calcium carbonate shell, and when exposed to acidified water, their energy stores...
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Climate change implicated in France floodsl: study
2016-06-10 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AFP: Torrential rains which caused flooding in France recently bore the unmistakable fingerprint of climate change, according to research to be submitted to a scientific journal next week. Global warming, especially in the last 50 years, had almost doubled the likelihood of the kind of three-day downpour that burst the banks of the Seine and Loire rivers, they calculated. At the very least, the probability of such an extreme rainfall event had increased by more than 40 percent. "We found that...
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India Not Happy With US Study On Pollution That Claims People Lose Six Years Of Their Lives
2016-06-10 06:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
India Times: Well India has angrily rejected the study on pollution published in the Geophysical Research Letters Journal of the American Geophysical Union. "We reject the claims made in the so-called research article that each Indian loses six years of his/her life because of pollution. The Ministry of Earth Sciences does not agree with the study and completely rejects it,' Minister of State of Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said in a statement here. The minister said the study...
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Singapore LTA to issue tender to study Cross Island Line direct alignment options
2016-06-10 01:00:00| Railway Technology
The Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) is considering options for the alignment of the 50km Cross Island Line (CRL).
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