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Conifer die-off increases threat of wildfire
2016-03-13 00:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Farmingont Daily Times: In the past few years, New Mexico has experienced huge, record-breaking fires in both the Jemez Mountains and the Gila National Forest. Big fires havent hit the Sandia district of the Cibola National Forest to the east of Albuquerque. But thousands of acres of dead conifer trees pose a hazard. Thats because after the trees die and dry out, they provide fuel for wildfires. Silviculturists like the Sandia Districts Shawn Martin practice a specialty within forestry, managing forest health by paying...
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Seabird Die-off: 'Diving' Seabirds Found Dead in Alaska in Huge Numbers
2016-01-13 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The birds in question were common murres, white ocean flyers that are among North America's most abundant seabirds. They were emaciated and had apparently starved to death, then washed ashore. There were so many that the biologist, David Irons, at first took them for patches of snow. "It was pretty horrifying," Irons said in an Associated Press article. "The live ones standing along the dead ones were even worse." While this bird species has had die-offs in previous winters, Alaska is seeing...
Study: Fish die-off linked to ocean warming
2015-10-31 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Cape Cod Times: Its commonly accepted that fish off the New England coastline are on the move, headed north or offshore to deeper waters to find relief from a warming ocean. In the case of Gulf of Maine cod, the fish werent just packing up and leaving, they were dying, according to a study released Thursday in the online journal Science. The study criticized fishery managers for not taking higher mortality levels into account when formulating fishing plans over the past decade that they hoped would restore...
Algal Blooms Linked to Largest Die-Off of Great Whales Ever Recorded
2015-10-29 19:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In Argentina baby whales have been dying off the coast in increasingly high numbers for the past decade and no one has known exactly why. "The average number of right whale deaths per year at Peninsula Valdes jumped more than 10-fold, from fewer than six per year before 2005 to 65 per year from 2005 to 2014," reports National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries West Coast Region. "Even more striking," they say, "90 percent of the deaths from 2005 to 2014 were very young calves...
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Worlds Oceans Face Worst Coral Die-Off in History, Scientists Warn
2015-10-08 17:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: We recently reported on how Hawaii could be facing the worst coral bleaching in its history this year as surrounding water temperatures rise at unprecedented rates. Now scientists are warning that it`s not just Hawaii but the entire world that is in the midst of the worst coral die off in history. A consortium of scientists today from the University of Queensland, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), XL Catlin Seaview Survey and elsewhere confirmed today that we are facing a third...
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