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Climate Change May Trigger Higher Mercury Levels in Fish, Study Suggests
2013-10-05 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Adding to the extensive list of climate change's effects, researchers from Dartmouth College have uncovered a link between rising ocean surface temperatures -- a result, they say, of a changing climate -- and the amount of mercury in fish. High in protein and omega-3 fatty acids, fish can play an important role in promoting proper growth and development as well as heart health. However, tucked away in the fatty tissue of many kinds of fish are high levels of methylmercury, an even more toxic form...
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Our response to climate change will seal the future
2013-10-05 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: When the Paleo-Indians arrived in the Salt Lake Valley around 12,000 years ago, there were glaciers in the mountains, mammoths roaming the banks of Lake Bonneville and the lot where my house sits in Sandy was under 100 feet of water. Thats climate change. Today climatologists agree that the Earth is getting warmer faster than ever before and they have the statistics to prove it. Its not rocket science. It involves balloons and thermometers. The key work was done by Benjamin Santer at the...
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College students worried about climate change hazards
2013-10-04 23:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: College students are worried about climate change-related hazards, even if they're not worried about climate change, suggesting that the threat of climate change still seems theoretical to many, new University of Florida research shows. A UF/IFAS study published online in September by the Journal of Environmental Management measures how worried students are about coastal calamities. The study is a dissertation by former UF doctoral student Stuart Carlton, now a postdoctoral assistant at Purdue...
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Climate change: sceptics, deniers and believers
2013-10-04 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Speaking at a conference run by the European Space Agency in Edinburgh last month, David Willetts, the UK science minister, recounted how he had recently sat next to a climate sceptic, or you could say, denier, at a dinner. He had been able to rebut this persons scepticism about the earths shrinking polar ice caps by using data from the ESAs Cryosat satellite mission, which measures the extent and thickness of polar ice from space. It was a heartening moment for those of us who have noticed...
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Oceans Under Greater Threat From Climate Change than Previously Believed
2013-10-03 21:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The world's oceans are under greater threat than previously believed, according to the latest report issued by the International Program on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The findings, published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, pointed to acidification, warming and declining oxygen levels as the "deadly trio" that together are affecting the ocean's productivity and efficiency. Should they continue unchecked, the researchers...
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