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Tiny possum could be Australia's first climate change victim

2013-03-26 06:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A one-degree rise in temperature could spell doom for a rare Australian possum within a decade, potentially making the tiny, long-tailed marsupial the continent's first victim of climate change, researchers said. Mountain Pygmy Possums have been a part of the Australian ecosystem for more than 25 million years, but only 2,000-2,600 are believed to remain in the wilds of the Snowy Mountains, a range that extends between New South Wales and Victoria states. "There's so many ways that a change...

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Coal And Coral: Australia's Self-Destructive Paradox

2013-03-23 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: NPR Science Correspondent Richard Harris traveled to Australia's Great Barrier Reef to find out how the coral reefs are coping with increased water temperature and increasing ocean acidity, brought about by our burning of fossil fuels. Day 5: A return to shore finds that people prefer cars to corals. It's not every day you open an in-flight magazine and read an ad touting "spitwater pressure cleaners for the mining industry." Flip the page and you'll also see an ad cajoling you to "snorkel, sip,...

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Australia's heatwaves to hit wildlife hard

2013-03-12 13:37:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: IN EARLY JANUARY 2010 golfers in Hopetoun, WA ventured out from the cool of the clubhouse to tee off. The day was oppressively hot: 47° was predicted. Only the keenest golfers were having a hit. But rather than golf-balls on the fairway, the golfers found dead and dying birds scattered. The Department of Environment recorded the death of several hundred birds, including the devastating loss of 208 endangered Carnaby's black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus latirostris). At one site, this amounted to...

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Forests under fire: Australias imperiled south west

2013-03-05 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: In the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, beyond the famed wineries in the shadow of the Margaret River, lies an ecosystem like no other, the South West ecoregion. This part of Australia has been identified as one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, home to rare endemic flora and fauna like the Carnabys black cockatoo, numbat (banded anteaters), woylie (brush-tailed bettong), mainland quokka and over 1500 plant species, most found nowhere else. Unfortunately, this unique habitat is being...

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Australia's Total, Export Earnings Forecast to Rise

2013-03-05 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

AUSTRALIA - The latest forecasts from ABARES indicate rising output in both the crop and livestock sectors in 2013-2014. Exports earnings are expected to rise for a number of products including barley and beef and to fall for canola, wheat, rice, sorghum, cotton and sugar.

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