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Climate change alters land map of India
2014-01-18 19:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindustan Times: The adverse effects of climate change are being felt on more than a fourth of Indias landmass over the last four decades. While some parts of the country have turned arid, others have witnessed more rainfall. A study by the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) at Hyderabad has revealed that about 27% of the countrys geographical area has been directly impacted by climate change, a result of increase in mean surface temperatures coupled with changes in rainfall pattern between...
New climate change map adds a new factor: people
2013-09-17 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: In making the new map, published this week in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, a team of scientists have factored humans modifications to their environment into a new calculation of the relative threats that climate change poses to the worlds different regions. These alterations to the worlds landscapes seen in burgeoning cities, industrial centers, and farmland have already weakened certain regional ecosystems, putting them at a disadvantage as manmade changes to the global...
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Interactive Map Links Climate Change and Wildfires in Western States
2013-07-15 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new interactive tool produced by Climate Central illustrates how rising temperatures and reduced snowpack in the western U.S. have corresponded with an increase in wildfires in recent decades. Based on federal wildfire data from 1970 to 2012, the graphic shows how large fires in some western states--including Arizona, Colorado and Idaho--have doubled or even tripled in four decades, a period when the average spring and summer temperatures in 11 states increased by more than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit....
Prescott Valley car dealer seeks zone map change to allow recreational vehicle storage
2013-06-11 06:24:17| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
RV storage is not allowed in C2 zoning districts, according to a staff report to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Scientists to Obama: Convene climate change 'summit' to map out federal action
2013-02-08 16:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: Several scientific organizations are urging President Obama to convene a national summit on climate change to identify effective federal policies as well as state and local government actions. The request, spelled out in a letter Friday, highlights how advocates are pinning their hopes on aggressive White House steps in Obama's second term as global warming legislation remains a non-starter in Congress. Such a national summit on climate change should be informed by science and could bring...
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