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Global warming worsens Mexico City smog
2015-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global Post: On a sweaty May morning in this sprawling mountain capital, residents heard a painfully familiar warning on the radio and TV. Air pollution was at dangerous levels, environmental authorities said. People were advised to stay indoors as much as possible and avoid exercise. Asthma sufferers should take particular care. On the city streets, this pollution could be seen in dirty clouds hanging amid grid-locked traffic. The environmental pre-contingency on May 9 was the fourth so far this year,...
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GOP pledges to a rein ina Obama on EPA rules, global warming
2015-05-31 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more than 117 million people in the country. Not so, insist Republicans. They say the rule is a massive government overreach that could even subject puddles and ditches to regulation. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is promising to rein in the government through legislation or other means. Its a threat with a familiar ring. What else are Capito and other Republicans...
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With Global Warming, a future of Pacific Superstorms
2015-05-31 08:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Every year, typhoons over the western North Pacific the equivalent to hurricanes in the North Atlantic cause considerable damage in East and Southeast Asia. Super Typhoon Haiyan of 2013, one of the strongest ocean storms ever recorded, devastated large portions of the Philippines and killed at least 6,300 people. It set records for the strongest storm at landfall and for the highest sustained wind speed over one minute, hitting 315 kilometers (194 miles) per hour when it reached the province...
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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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Climate Change: Ancient Warming Interrupted Significant Cold Snap
2015-05-28 19:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: This revelation, described in the journal Geology, may help improve prognoses of future climate and environmental development as well as the assessment of human influence on climate change. During the Cretaceous period, which was one of the warmest times in Earth's history, the poles were devoid of ice and average ocean temperatures in the Atlantic reached up to a sweltering 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). "A typical greenhouse climate; some even refer to it as a 'super greenhouse,'"...
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