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Bangladesh approves law on agri-research amid changing climate patterns
2016-07-12 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News Next: Bangladeshi government on Monday approved a draft law aiming at capacity building of the institutions related to researches on agriculture, officials said. The cabinet headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave go ahead to the draft of The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (Bari) Bill, 2016 at a meeting, said Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam. He said Bari will run necessary core researches on checking the adverse impacts of climate change, discovering new varieties of crops...
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Bird migration changing due to climate change, development at Indian coasts
2016-07-02 11:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Zee News: According to experts, developmental activities in coastal wetlands of India and climate change are the two main factors behind change in arrival patterns of migratory birds. The important coastal wetlands along the east coast of India are Gulf of Mannar, Point Calimere, Pulicat, and Chilika. On the east coast, due to the degradation of wetlands habitats, populations of various waterbird species are dwindling in their traditional wintering sites, said S. Balachandran, deputy director, Bombay...
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Ensuring passenger safety in a changing climate of risk
2016-05-10 11:15:00| Ship Technology
Shifting patterns of risk could see cruise passengers cross paths with terrorism attacks, natural disasters, regional conflicts and disease. But how far does the duty of cruise operators extend in ensuring the safety of their passengers and where do
Climate Change: Extreme Weather Events Linked To Earths Changing Climate
2016-03-12 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: Linking extreme weather events to change is becoming easier for scientists. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) has compiled a list of extreme weather events which can be linked to climate change. University of Georgia scientist J. Marshall Shepherd said this list is "the first definitive ranking of what events can be attributed to climate change." Doctor David Titley, the head of the committee that wrote the NAS list commented further on the link between climate change...
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Changing climate and reforestation
2016-01-13 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: For the past six years, researchers at the Universitat Politnica de Valncia (Polytechnic Univeristy of Valencia, UPV) have been studying the performance of twelve Aleppo pine varieties native to different regions of Spain in reforestation campaigns across three national forest areas. Different varieties or genotypes have different levels of resistance to cold and drought, which influence how well they perform in a given geographical region, and researchers wanted to find out which varieties worked...
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