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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Alberta Floods highlight a more active water cycle with climate change

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An intense rainfall and storm event on June 20-21 has caused widespread flooding in the Canadian province of Alberta, encompassing much of t...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

IEA: Four measures to limit carbon emissions and Global Warming to 2 degrees Celsius

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The International Energy Agency warned of the danger of exceeding the 2 °C of global warming unless governments take swift action to reign ...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Wildfires set new destructive records in Colorado and New Mexico due to climate change

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High temperatures, high winds and low humidity are contributing to extreme fire weather across the US southwest. In Colorado the Black Fores...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Mayor Bloomberg launches $20 billion climate adaptation strategy for New York

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In a bold statement on June 11, 2013 from a former Naval Yard on Staten Island that was flood damaged by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Sandy, Michael ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Climate change driving California native Freshwater fish species to extinction

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Eighty two percent of native freshwater fish species in California, including salmon, are likely to become extinct on present trends within ...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Frogs, Salamanders, turtles declining rapidly in US due to climate change and habitat loss

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A recent study revealed amphibian declines are occurring much more rapidly and more widespread than expected in species populations across t...
Friday, June 7, 2013

US Forest Service Chief warns of more extreme wild fires associated with climate change

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Wild fires are getting bigger and burning with greater intensity with an extended fire season, due in large part to climate change, accordin...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Soil Carbon sequestration limited in mitigating fossil fuel emissions say scientists

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Rebuilding soils through carbon sequestration and mitigating fossil fuel emissions sounds like a win-win solution all around. A reason the L...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Cities to get much hotter as heatwaves amplify Urban Heat Island Effect

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A new study just published looked at the way Urban Heat Island effect interacts with heatwaves. It is not a simple addition of the heatwave...

Victorian Government knowingly driving Leadbeater's Possum to extinction say scientists

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Two distinguished environmental scientists accused the Victorian Government of forestry policies knowingly designed to drive Leadbeater...