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The acid test: Changing seas trip up baby squid
2013-06-01 15:36:29| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Squid could be in trouble as the oceans grow more acidic, new research finds. As humans pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the oceans absorb about a third of the greenhouse gas. This buffers terrestrial creatures from even more extreme effects of climate change -- without the oceans, Earth's atmosphere would contain far more than the approximately 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide that it does today. However, the dissolved carbon dioxide makes the oceans more acidic, possibly affecting...
Warmer seas fuel Maine crab invasion, clammers say
2013-05-30 22:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An invasion of European green crabs, encouraged by rising ocean temperatures, is eating its way north through Maine's clam flats, threatening the state's third-largest fishery and an iconic summer treat for tourists. "If something isn't done soon, it will mean the death of the clam fishery," said Chad Coffin, president of the Maine Clammers Association. "I don't think people understand just how big a problem this is." The invasive crabs likely reached U.S. shores in the early 1800s after hitching...
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Statoil finds oil at North Sea's Grane field
2013-05-30 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Norway's multinational oil and gas company Statoil, along with its partners, has discovered oil in an area surrounding the Grane field in the North Sea.
Fiji's villagers move uphill to escape global warming's rising seas
2013-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Fiji's picturesque Natewa Bay must be a hard place to leave, and for none more so than the villagers of Vunidogoloa, who are preparing to abandon their ancestral home in the face of the rising sea. But they have little choice: big waves now overtop a once-protective sea wall, their salt-polluted vegetation is dying. They are to move as a community a mile inland, and uphill, to a new site on the northern island of Vanua Levu. Devout Methodists, they have named Kenani, Fijian for Canaan the promised...
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Last time CO2 hit 400 ppm, temperature was 8C warmer, seas 40m higher than today
2013-05-12 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Lake sediments recorded the climate of the Arctic during the last period when CO2 levels were as high as today The future of a globally warmed world has been revealed in a remote meteorite crater in Siberia, where lake sediments recorded the strikingly balmy climate of the Arctic during the last period when greenhouse gas levels were as high as today. Unchecked burning of fossil fuels has driven carbon dioxide to levels not seen for 3m years when, the sediments show, temperatures were 8C higher...
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