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What's making the water off New Jersey turn aquamarine?
2016-07-15 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Turquoise waters reminiscent of a Caribbean island have replaced the New Jerseys typically murky coast for the past week, thanks to combination of phytoplankton and unusual weather conditions. The phytoplankton bloom behind the color shift was photographed on July 6 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite, which gathers data on the Earth's water cycle. Unlike the toxic algae bloom currently choking Florida waters, New Jersey's phytoplankton bloom is a harmless,...
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Film star revives ancient glass making Chinese skills
2016-07-14 08:21:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Loretta Yang left the film industry along with her director husband to start making glassware using an ancient Chinese technique.
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Italys public and politics: making decisions about national energy
2016-07-11 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Offshore platforms near the Adriatic coast were the focus of a politically-charged national referendum in April, when the Italian public were asked to vote on whether or not to stop renewing drilling licences close to shore. Despite environmentalist
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Climate change is making our summers more extreme
2016-06-30 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Scientists have been able to more directly link extreme weather, like the floods that hit Central Europe last month, to climate change. A changed climate could also mean hotter summers - and with that, more deaths. Bye-bye idyllic summers? Climate change is set to make summers full of extreme weather Europe's summer got off to a torrential start this year as severe flooding struck much of the continent. At least 18 people were killed in May 2016 in the heavy downpours and ensuing floods that...
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Is Climate Change Making Conflict Worse?
2016-06-27 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: Recent evidence points to environmental stress having an adverse impact on weak or unstable countries, pointing to a grim future with droughts, floods and other extreme events expected to increase due to climate change. Right now, the world is looking at Venezuela, which is going through one of the worst economic crises in recent history. Its economy is collapsing before our eyes, and environmental factors aren`t helping. Drought is crippling the country`s hydro-power potential, devastating crops...
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