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Floods, forest fires, expanding deserts: the future has arrived
2014-09-28 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change is no longer viewed by mainstream scientists as a future threat to our planet and our species. It is a palpable phenomenon that already affects the world, they insist. And a brief look round the globe certainly provides no lack of evidence to support this gloomy assertion. In Bangladesh, increasingly severe floods triggered, in part, by increasing temperatures and rising sea levels are wiping out crops and destroying homes on a regular basis. In Sudan, the heat is causing the...
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Energy plan calls for big renewables projects in California deserts
2014-09-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Industrial-scale solar, wind and geothermal projects could be built within a few miles of national parks in the California desert as part of the Obama and Brown administrations' efforts to combat climate change, under a mammoth plan released by federal and state officials Tuesday. Construction of the plants, many of which could cover several square miles, would drastically alter desert vistas near national parks and wilderness areas, according to a draft of the Renewable Energy Conservation Plan,...
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China's deserts are expanding at an alarming rate. So it's fighting back, with straw mats
2014-06-10 23:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global Post: We were surrounded by sand. It stretched in undulating waves to the horizon in all directions. Wei Men, who works for the Baijitan Nature Reserve in Ningxia province, beckoned for us to step down from our desert overlook and take a close-up look at the desert floor. He wanted to show us what officials hope is the future of this arid stretch of China. Ningxia is facing a big problem. A small and relatively poor province, its population is growing and it has ambitions to expand its industry...
Deserts absorb big amounts of atmospheric CO2
2014-04-07 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: A team of researchers led by the Washington State University has found that deserts may play a key role in alleviating the effects of global warming. The researchers, which included biologists from the WSU and scientists from the Desert Research Institute, have discovered that arid areas such as deserts can absorb large amounts of carbon. Deserts comprise some of the largest ecosystems on Earth and the latest findings can be used to gain a better understanding of how carbon is distributed throughout...
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Making food deserts bloom takes more than just a baptism of kale
2014-03-25 11:09:21| Grocery - Topix.net
It took the nonprofit Philabundance to open a grocery store in Chester, Penn., but that's just the first step in getting locals to eat better food.