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North American Moose dying in droves as climate warming fuels disease, pests
2015-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: North American moose are dying by the thousands as they struggle with soaring temperatures and health problems linked to disease and parasites that thrive in the heat, scientists are finding. In north east Minnesota alone, moose numbered about 8,000 a decade ago. Today, the population is down to 3,500. The story is similar throughout Canada, New Hampshire and Maine. "All across the southern edge of the range, from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Minnesota, Michigan, all across the southern fringe...
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Why are so many whales dying on California's shores?
2015-05-16 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last week, scores of local residents made their way to Sharp State Park in Pacifica, California, a 20-minute drive south of San Francisco, to view the body of a humpback whale that came ashore on 4 May. When the 32-foot female humpback whales body came ashore, after days being tossed by waves, it was only the latest in a string of strandings along northern Californias Pacific coast. Moe Flannery, a stranded marine mammal responder and manager of the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy...
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Coal is dying all by itself
2015-04-14 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Coal, the No. 1 cause of climate change, is dying. Last year saw a record number of coal plant retirements in the United States, and a study last week from Duke University found that Even China, which produces and consumes more coal than the rest of the world put together, is expected to hit peak coal use within a decade, in order to meet its promise to President Barack Obama to reduce its carbon emissions starting in 2030. According to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), this is all the fault of President...
Kew quest to prevent coffee dying out
2015-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew have begun a desperate bid to find a new bean of coffee which can thrive as the climate warms, before the worlds supplies run out. Currently, just one variety of coffee bean Coffea arabica is primarily grown throughout the world by manufacturers. But it cannot survive at high temperatures, and botanists fear that up to 100 per cent of current crops will be lost by 2080 if climate change predictions for global warming hold true. Now scientists...
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US coal: could exporting to Asia offer a lifeline to a dying industry?
2015-02-10 01:00:00| Power Technology
US coal has been hit particularly hard, with a flood of shale gas supplies knocking it off its perch and recent EPA proposals promising to provide the killer blow. But a recent study by Duke University and a move by Ambre Energy suggest that exportin
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