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Changing climate changing forests: How best to help Pennsylvanias forests
2014-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In a 19th-century farmhouse deep in northern Pennsylvania`s Bradford County, Nancy Baker is looking at family photos dating back four generations. One shows her grandfather with a team of horses on clear cut land. Another shows her mother and aunt on the same farm as a small child. Baker also has a series of aerial photos going back to 1939, which show how the forest cover has evolved in the past 70 years. Her home was built by her great grandfather, Joseph Morrow Gamble, a Scots-Irish immigrant...
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Changing Diets Vital to Reducing Climate Change
2014-09-02 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - If current trends continue food production alone will reach, if not exceed, the global targets for total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2050.
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Report: Climate changing more rapidly than any point on record
2014-07-17 16:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: A new look at the vital signs of Earths climate reveals a stark picture of declining health. As global temperatures rise, so do sea level and the amount of heat trapped in the oceans upper layers. Meanwhile, mountain glaciers and Arctic sea ice are melting away beneath an atmosphere where concentrations of three key planet-warming greenhouse gases continue to rise. Data show that the climate is changing more rapidly now than it has at any time in the historical record, says Thomas Karl,...
Changing climate at root of Canada's 'utterly unprecedented' summer flood
2014-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Postmedia: Smith Creek in southeastern Saskatchewan normally runs dry in July. Last week it hit an all-time high and the stream gauge that scientists have been monitoring for decades is now under water. So are countless homes and farms in Saskatchewan and Manitoba where the province has declared a state of emergency and called in the military to help deal with the stunning summer flood. Its utterly unprecedented, says John Pomeroy, director of the centre for hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan....
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The Climate Is Changing. Republicans Need to Open Their Eyes Before Its Too Late
2014-05-14 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Scientists have long predicted that one of the consequences of climate change will be more frequent and more severe storms. They can't predict where and when they will occur, but the extreme magnitude of them reflects climate change. We saw the destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and I do not want anyone to have to endure what citizens of the New Jersey and New York coastlines experienced in that storm. Taking just my home state as an example, New Jersey's 127 miles of sandy beaches contribute...