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Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson proposes space colonies in response to climate change
2016-09-26 05:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blasting News: Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate, was being interviewed on This Week on ABC when the question was put to him about #Climate Change, the theory that human use of fossil fuels in pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere is raising the temperature of the Earth. Johnson offered an unusual policy prescription for the problem, according to the Washington Examiner. He said "we do have to inhabit other planets. The future of the human race is #Space exploration. Space exploration and...
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Antarctica's penguin colonies need your mouse clicks
2016-04-13 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: I just spent the last 10 minutes tagging unsuspecting penguins in photos captured by dozens of research cameras. And it was extremely satisfying. My official contribution to the penguin conservation scene came courtesy of the newly updated PenguinWatch 2.0 initiative, the largest Antarctic citizen science venture in the world. Researchers studying Antarctica's penguin colonies have setup 100 cameras in an effort to conduct the largest-ever census of the birds. The species, severely threatened...
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Intel chips to help pinpoint cause of bee colonies' deaths
2015-08-26 08:24:22| Wireless - Topix.net
Researchers from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation want to pinpoint the factors that lead to the mass death of honey bees everywhere, in what's being called as colony collapse disorder. In order to do so, it teamed up with Intel earlier this year to outfit healthy bees with a "backpack" that's a third of their weight.
Coral colonies more genetically diverse than assumed
2015-06-10 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Coral colonies are more genetically diverse than it has been assumed to date. This is the conclusion drawn by biologists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, who have conducted comprehensive studies into the genetic variability in individual colonies of different reef-forming coral species. “However, this doesn't mean we should expect that this variability can compensate for corals dying worldwide due to climate change,” says Maximilian Schweinsberg from the Department…
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Iceland's Seabird Colonies Vanishing "Massive" Chick Deaths
2014-08-27 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: When the days grew long, seabirds flocked to this hamlet on the edge of the Arctic to rear their chicks under the midnight sun. "Kria," shrieked the terns, calling summer up from the slumbering ground. Black cliffs were transformed into snowbanks of white kittiwakes. Puffins whirred between land and sea. Murres plied the shoreline; fulmars patrolled the skies. Everywhere sounded their vibrant chorus. These days, a few stubborn holdovers streak the sky and paddle the bay, but the legions are...
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