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Obama: Oceans key to protecting planet from climate change

2016-09-15 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: President Barack Obama said Thursday that he created the Atlantic Ocean's first national monument because the planet cannot be protected without trying to safeguard its oceans. Obama announced the new Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument at a State Department conference. "We cannot truly protect our planet without protecting our oceans," Obama said at the conference, which was attended by Secretary of State John Kerry and representatives of more than 20 countries who announced...

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Global warming disrupts oceans, seen lingering in the depths

2016-09-06 15:05:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Global warming is disrupting ocean life from plankton to whales and the heat may linger in the depths for centuries even if man-made greenhouse gas emissions are halted, an international study said on Monday. Rising temperatures in the seas were also having wider knock-on effects such as by disrupting rainfall patterns over land, spurring extreme weather events and aiding a spread of water-borne diseases, it said. "Ocean warming may well turn out to be the greatest hidden challenge of our generation,"...

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Warming oceans are 'sick', global scientists warn

2016-09-06 00:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major scientific report said on Monday (Sep 5). The findings, based on peer-reviewed research, were compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries, experts said at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Hawaii. "We all know that the oceans sustain this planet. We all know that the oceans provide...

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Warming of oceans could be humanity's 'greatest hidden challenge', report warns

2016-09-05 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: The warming of the oceans may become the greatest hidden challenge of our generation, a major new report has warned. The 456-page document, published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), describes the effects of the huge amount of energy that has been absorbed by the sea in recent decades. The scale of the changes is potentially huge affecting marine life from viruses, bacteria and plankton, fish and seabirds to the climate, weather and human health. A vast amount...

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Global warming disrupts oceans, seen lingering in the depths

2016-09-05 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Global warming is disrupting ocean life from plankton to whales and the heat may linger in the depths for centuries even if man-made greenhouse gas emissions are halted, an international study said on Monday. Rising temperatures in the seas were also having wider knock-on effects such as by disrupting rainfall patterns over land, spurring extreme weather events and aiding a spread of water-borne diseases, it said. "Ocean warming may well turn out to be the greatest hidden challenge of our generation,"...

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