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How Fruit Fly's Fascinating Ability To Adapt To Climate Change Can Help Us Survive
2016-07-07 08:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: How the fruit flies adapt to change in temperature might give us more ideas how we can survive the rapidly changing climate. Fruit flies may be small but they can do big things for climate change research. A recent study revealed that the fruit flies' ability to drastically change body temperature to adapt to the changing environment can help in further understanding how climate change affects insects and their habitat. Canadian Press reported that Heath MacMillan, together with researchers...
Environmentalist accuses former Alaska AG of protecting Exxon from climate change lawsuits
2016-07-07 07:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KTUU: An Alaska environmentalist is accusing the Walker administration and a former Attorney General of trying to protect Exxon from lawsuits over climate change. Rick Steiner with the group Oasis Earth said he obtained a letter signed last month by the Attorneys General of 13 states, including previous Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards. The letter urges an end to lawsuits that claim Exxon committed fraud by concealing its scientific knowledge about the impacts of climate changes. "It is outrageous...
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Climate change partly behind tough year, Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association conference told
2016-07-07 02:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate change partly behind tough year, Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association conference told Dairy farms in Tasmania's north-west are still dealing with the clean up from flooding in June. (Supplied: Neil Hargreaves) Milk price cut a 'triple whammy' for Tasmanian farmers Fears for new Tasmanian dairy farmers after milk price slump Map: Launceston 7250 Climate change is partly to blame for a tough year on the land, a Tasmanian farmers conference has been told. About 100 farmers attending...
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Zombies out, cool tech in: Climate comics sketch new vision of warmer world
2016-07-07 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Thanks to the success of Hollywood disaster films, from "Waterworld" to "The Day After Tomorrow", it's not hard to imagine an apocalyptic future as climate change takes hold. Picturing a warmer but more habitable Earth, however - one with plentiful clean energy, and less pollution and waste is more challenging because so few futuristic tales tell of such a world. "People are naturally drawn toward disasters as stories. If you don't have any jeopardy, you don't really have a plot," said James...
The Democrats' climate change conundrum
2016-07-07 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Climate change is a top liberal priority, but that very urgency is making the issue divisive as much as unifying for Democrats. A wide rift has opened over a basic question: Just how ambitious should the Democratic Party be in trying to reduce carbon emissions and stabilize Earths climate? Dueling views emerged as supporters of Hillary Clinton faced off against fans of Bernie Sanders in crafting the partys 2016 platform. The Sanders camp is seeing the platform as a missed opportunity for...
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