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Turtles face climate change threat as warming beaches turn eggs female
2016-02-14 04:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Researchers investigating the impact of rising temperatures on sea turtles are travelling to some of the most remote beaches in Australia to work out which populations are at risk of being feminised into extinction. In a phenomenon being seen worldwide, warming temperatures are resulting in an increasing number of turtles eggs hatching female. The race is now on to work out which rookeries are most at risk in Australia, with a University of Western Australia (UWA) team focused on turtle breeding...
Scalia's death could change court on abortion, race, climate
2016-02-14 03:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Justice Antonin Scalia's death could change the course of history on the contentious social and legal issues pending before the Supreme Court this term, especially in closely divided cases where he was expected to serve as a lynchpin of a conservative majority. In cases where the eight remaining justices are evenly divided, appeals court rulings would be left to stand, but no precedent would be set for future cases. The justices could also hold cases and leave stays of lower court rulings in place,...
Why fighting anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers often backfires
2016-02-14 00:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: If theres a war on science, its not just one war. And branding people who disagree with you about vaccines, climate change, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as the enemy may be unwittingly fueling the conflicts. Those were some of the arguments made at a session here today at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science). The presenters included a philosopher, a medical historian, a plant scientist, and a technology historian. Their talks underscored that the people who worry...
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Climate change is awfully hard on native plants
2016-02-13 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Willis Linn Jepson encountered a squat shrub while he was collecting botanical specimens on Californias Mount Tamalpais in the fall of 1936. He trimmed off a few branches and jotted down the location along the ridge trail where the manzanita grew, 2,255 feet above sea level. The desiccated specimen is now part of an herbarium here thats named for the famed botanist. It was among hundreds of thousands of specimens of thousands of different species that were used recently to track the movement...
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Climate: Land areas storing more water, slowing sea level rise
2016-02-13 08:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit County: As crucial as it is for the future of humanity, calculating the rate of sea level rise has never been easy, and new measurements by NASA satellites have added a new twist to the equation. Careful study of the data from NASA`s twin NASA`s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites helped show how climate-driven increases of liquid water storage on land have affected the rate of sea level rise. In the past decade, Earth`s land masses have soaked up an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water...
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