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NASA: California Needs 11 Trillion Gallons Water to End Epic Drought
2014-12-17 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Californias record-setting three-year-old drought has left the state with a massive water deficit, and communities, agricultural interests and others warring over access to the supply. Now groundbreaking new calculations based on Now groundbreaking new calculations based on NASA satellite data have revealed just how large that deficit is. A team of scis Jet Propulsion Laborator (JPL) crunched data from NASAs Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) to figure out how much water it would...
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Drought Recovery? California Will Need 11 Trillion Gallons Water
2014-12-17 04:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: California has been suffering from a three-year-drought that is the worst the region has seen in more than a millennium. Now an analysis conducted by NASA has revealed that in order for the state to recover from its current predicament, it's going to have to gain 11 trillion gallons of water back somehow. That finding was part of an overall review of the drought's recent peak, which was conducted by NASA experts and presented Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco....
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5 Trillion Pieces of Ocean Trash Found, But Fewer Particles Than Expected
2014-12-12 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A new study on the amount of plastic pollution floating around the world's oceans found a lot of garbage but fewer small particles than researchers expected, raising new questions about how litter is interacting with the environment. Scientists from the nonprofit advocacy group 5 Gyres published their findings this week in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE. The researchers collected plastic from parts of the ocean with nets and then used computer models to estimate the extent of the garbage problem...
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Groundbreaking Study: 5 Trillion Pieces of Plastic Floating in Worlds Oceans
2014-12-11 18:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Youve probably heard of the 5 Gyres, those huge deposits of plastic found in rotating masses in the worlds oceans. Now a new study released yesterday by the 5 Gyres Institute provides the first comprehensive estimate of how much plastic there actually is in the worlds oceans. It found that plastic was not just confined to the gyres, but was widely dispersed throughout the oceans. The report was compiled from information gathered during 24 expeditions from 2007-2013. The estimate concludes that...
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Study: over 5 trillion pieces of plastic now in the ocean
2014-12-11 15:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Researchers have measured how much plastic is now in the oceans and the findings show how huge the scale of the problem is. It is estimated that there are over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, ranging in size, in the oceans, collectively weighing 269,000 tons. The findings, which were collected by scientists from the US, France, Chile, Australia and New Zealand, have been published in the journal PLOS One. The research was conducted by collecting plastic with nets whilst on ships or observing from...
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