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Oil and gas wastewater is changing the Earth's surface, study finds
2016-09-22 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: The U.S. oil and gas industry is having a visible effect on the Earth's surface, a new review of satellite images has found. In recent years, energy companies have pumped an unprecedented volume of wastewater a byproduct of fracking and conventional drilling deep into underground wells. The water often can't be reused or recycled for economic or technical reasons, so many companies have found it easier to inject the water back into the ground. That process has sparked a wave of earthquakes...
Study: More than a 10th of Earth's wilderness lost since the 1990s
2016-09-12 09:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: It's a bleak revelation -- a new study reveals that about a tenth of the Earth's wilderness has been lost since the 1990s. Over the last 20 years, a total area half the size of the Amazon and twice the size of Alaska has been depleted. The researchers behind the study, published in the journal Current Biology, say they hope that the sobering revelation that rich natural habitats like the Amazon have been decimated in a relatively short amount of time will act as a wakeup call to global leaders...
Unprecedented atmospheric behavior disrupts one of Earth's most regular climate cycles
2016-09-10 09:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The normal flow of air high up in the atmosphere over the equator, known as the quasi-biennial oscillation, was seen to break down earlier this year. These stratospheric winds are found high above the tropics, their direction and strength changes in a regular two- to three-year cycle which provides forecasters with an indication of the weather to expect in Northern Europe. Westerly winds are known to increase the chance of warm and wet conditions, while easterlies bring drier and colder weather....
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10% of Earths Wilderness Has Disappeared Since the 1990s
2016-09-10 03:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mental Floss: Not so long ago, the majority of the Earth was blanketed in forests and jungles, vast deserts, and sprawling savannas. But these days, the Earths wilderness is rapidly eroding. The Verge reports that, according to a recent study published in Current Biology, 10 percent of the Earths wilderness has disappeared in the last two decades alone. Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society analyzed satellite and survey data since the 1990s in order to measure the loss of the Earths untamed...
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Global warming is shifting Earth's clouds, study shows
2016-07-12 11:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The reaction of clouds to a warming atmosphere has been one of the major sources of uncertainty in estimating exactly how much the world will heat up from the accumulation of greenhouse gases, as some changes would enhance warming, while others would counteract it. The study, detailed Monday in the journal Nature, overcomes problems with the satellite record and shows that observations support projections from climate models. But the work is only a first step in understanding the relationship...
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