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Enhanced levels of carbon dioxide are likely cause of global dryland greening, study says
2016-02-16 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Enhanced levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are a likely key driver of global dryland greening, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. The positive trend in vegetation greenness has been observed through satellite images, but the reasons for it had been unclear. After analyzing 45 studies from eight countries, Lixin Wang, assistant professor of earth sciences in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and a Ph.D. student in Wang's...
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Study Ties U.S. to Spike Global Methane Emissions
2016-02-16 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: There was a huge global spike in one of the most potent greenhouse gases driving climate change over the last decade, and the U.S. may be the biggest culprit, according a new Harvard University study. The United States alone could be responsible for between 30 percent and 60 percent of the global growth in human-caused atmospheric methane emissions since 2002 because of a 30 percent spike in methane emissions across the country, the study says. The research shows that emissions increased the most...
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Global Water Shortages May Be Far Worse than We Thought
2016-02-16 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Safe Bee: A new study found that about two-thirds of the worlds population, or some 4 billion people, face severe water shortages during at least one month of every year. Half of the 4 billion are in India and China, but people in other countries, including the United States and Mexico, are also affected. Most water is used for food, so water scarcity primarily translates to decreasing or failing crop yields, wrote study co-author Mesfin Mekonnen in an email to SafeBee. Mekonnena is postdoctoral researcher...
Europe launches satellite to help track global warming
2016-02-16 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Europe launched a satellite on Tuesday that will help predict weather phenomena such as El Nino and track the progress of global warming as part of the multibillion-euro Copernicus Earth observation project. The Sentinel-3A satellite, part of a system of satellites that is to monitor Earth, blasted off on board a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia's north-western Arkhangelsk region at 12:57 p.m. EDT (1757 GMT) on Tuesday. It headed for orbit 815 km (506 miles) above Earth,...
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January Smashed Another Global Temperature Record
2016-02-16 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The calendar may have turned to 2016, but temperatures are picking up where 2015 left off. January was record warm, according to data released this week by NASA. You may recall that last year was the hottest on record for the globe. And by NASA's accounting, it ended with a bang. This past December was the warmest December on record and the most abnormally warm month on record, too. That is until now. This January was the warmest January on record by a large margin while also claiming the...
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