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Arctic tern makes longest ever migration equal to flying twice around the planet
2016-06-07 01:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A tiny bird from the Farne Islands off Northumberland has clocked up the longest migration ever recorded. The Arctic terns meandering journey to Antarctica and back saw it clock up 59,650 miles, more than twice the circumference of the planet. The bird, which weighs just 100g, left its breeding grounds last July and flew down the west coast of Africa, rounded the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean and arrived in Antarctica in November. Its mammoth trek was recorded by a tiny device attached...
Ancient Crops Shed Light on Madagascar Migration Mystery
2016-06-03 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A new study involving ancient crops shed some light on how people from South East Asia end up on the African Island of Madagascar, 6,000 km away. Previously, linguistic and genetic evidences revealed that inhabitants of Madagascar share close ancestry with Malaysians, Polynesians, and other speakers of what is classed the Austronesian language family. However, archeological evidences that are found in Madagascar, which were believed to be from the first millennium, provide no concrete proof that...
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African migration may fuel rise in wildfire intensity
2016-05-31 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Urbanisation may lead to fewer traditional controlled burns in rural areas Build up of dry vegetation would raise risk of more-damaging fires Official efforts to ban all fires clash with traditional management Shares African wildfires may become larger and more intense as more people move to cities, a study has found. Traditional ways of using controlled burning to prevent out-of-control natural fires could die out in many rural areas as urbanisation increases, leaving grassland free...
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French minister warns of mass climate change migration if world doesn't act
2016-05-26 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global warming will create hundreds of millions of climate change migrants by the end of the century if governments do not act, Frances environment minister has warned. Ségolne Royal told ministers from 170 countries at the UN environment assembly in Nairobi that climate change was linked to conflicts, which in turned caused migration. Climate change issues lead to conflict, and when we analyse wars and conflicts that have taken place over the last few years we see some are linked to an...
Species Loss, the Migration Hiding in Plain Sight
2016-05-23 11:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Two months ago, I was in Agadez, a city in the middle of the famous Ténéré Desert of Niger. Agadez has become a major transit point on a hazardous journey for the hundreds and thousands of desperate people from all over West Africa trying to make it to the Mediterranean coast every year. Monique Barbut The loss of productive land and unpredictability of the rainy seasons has left many Sahelians with far too few options. Their livelihoods are under threat. When communities that are culturally...
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