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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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Global warming and airflow changes 'caused US and EU heatwaves'
2013-02-26 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming may have caused extreme events such as a 2011 drought in the United States and a 2003 heatwave in Europe by slowing vast, wave-like weather flows in the northern hemisphere, scientists said on Tuesday. The study of meandering air systems that encircle the planet adds to understanding of extremes that have killed thousands of people and driven up food prices in the past decade. Such planetary airflows, which suck warm air from the tropics when they swing north and draw cold air...
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Global food crisis will worsen as heatwaves damage crops, research finds
2013-01-13 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world's food crisis, where 1 billion people are already going hungry and a further 2 billion people will be affected by 2050, is set to worsen as increasing heatwaves reverse the rising crop yields seen over the last 50 years, according to new research. Severe heatwaves, such as those currently seen in Australia, are expected to become many times more likely in coming decades due to climate change. Extreme heat led to 2012 becoming the hottest year in the US on record and the worst corn crop...
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Australia: Records will keep tumbling with blistering heatwaves here to stay
2013-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: THE heatwave that has scorched the nation since Christmas is a taste of things to come, with this week's records set to tumble again and again in the coming years, climate scientists said. The hottest average maximum temperature ever recorded across Australia - 40.33 degrees, set on Monday - might stand for only 24 hours and be eclipsed when all of Tuesday's readings come in. The previous record had stood since December 21, 1972. ''The current heatwave - in terms of its duration, its intensity...
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