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Global warming may flatten rainforests
2013-09-12 02:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Climate change may push canopy-dwelling plants and animals out of the tree-tops due to rising temperatures and drier conditions, argues a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The development may be akin to "flattening" the tiered vegetation structure that characterizes the rainforest ecosystem. The conclusion is based on surveys of frogs and other canopy-dwelling animals in Singapore and the mountains of the Philippines. Brett Scheffers of James Cook University and colleagues...
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Global Warming Could Alter the Strength of El Nio
2013-09-11 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Global warming could impact the El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO), researchers have found, resulting in changes in the El Nio and La Nia weather cycles known to cause drought and flooding in Australia and other Pacific-rim countries. Published in Nature Geoscience, the study uses coral samples to track the last 4,300 years of the ENSO cycle. The results suggest that El Nio events are easily influenced by external changes. "Our research has showed that while the development of La Nia and...
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Global warming adds punch to bad weather
2013-09-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: DID global warming contribute to the punishing heat wave much of the country endured during the summer of 2012? How about Superstorm Sandy? A group of 78 scientists led by experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week gave its preliminary answers, releasing a series of peer-reviewed analyses on those and other major weather events from last year. The picture the group offers is of a planet in which warming has boosted the chances, in some cases significantly, that...
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Why Are Some Corals Flourishing in a Time of Global Warming?
2013-09-10 18:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As Earth's temperature climbs, the stony corals that form the backbone of ocean reefs are in decline. It's a well-documented story: Violent storms and coral bleaching have all contributed to dwindling populations, and increasing acidity of seawater threatens to take an additional toll. Less discussed, however, is the plight of gorgonian corals -- softer, flexible, tree-like species that can rise up like an underwater forest, providing a canopy beneath which small fish and aquatic life of all...
Warming climate begins to taint Europe's blood supplies
2013-09-10 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A whole new set of ungovernable pathogens are being loosed on the world's blood supplies. A warming climate has allowed blood-borne tropical diseases to flourish where once they were unheard of, and they're getting around. The state of blood supplies became worrisome after tennis star Arthur Ashe's death from AIDS 20 years ago in 1993 -- the result of an HIV-tainted transfusion administered during a routine heart bypass operation in the late 1980s. Hospitals and blood banks now routinely screen...
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