Tag: climate change
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Rising Sea Levels Threaten 233 Endangered Species
Sea-level rise driven by climate change poses a deadly threat to 233 federally protected animal and plant species in 23 coastal states, according to a new scientific report from the Center for Biological Diversity, and U.S. wildlife protection agencies are not doing enough to protect at-risk species. In a letter to the two wildlife agencies,…
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Whales Desert Historic Feeding Grounds—Is Climate Change to Blame?
By Kieran Cooke A mystery is unfolding in the waters of the North Atlantic. Every summer and autumn, numbers of North Atlantic right whales gather in the waters between the eastern Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to feed on massive amounts of zooplankton. But this year the right whales—one of the rarest…
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Mining and Fracking Public Lands Creates 4.5 Times More Carbon Than They Can Absorb
Public lands generate about 4.5 times more atmospheric carbon than they are currently able to absorb, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress. In short, oil and gas drilling is outpacing the capacity of our forests and grasslands to capture the carbon that is being emitted. [caption id="attachment_314679" align="alignnone" width="500"] Strip mine in…
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Shrimp Fishing Banned in Gulf of Maine Due to Ocean Warming
Warming ocean waters in New England have caused shrimp populations to fall so low that shrimp fishing in the Gulf of Maine has been banned for the 2014 season. That means the small Maine shrimp sold by stores and served by restaurants will get scarce or disappear entirely. Often called bay shrimp or pink shrimp,…
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Polar Bears in Peril From Climate Change and Hunting
New data pointing to a dramatic rise in polar bear hunting surfaced this week as the biennial meeting of the international Polar Bear Agreement kicked off in Moscow, Russia. Clearly, climate change isn’t the only challenge facing Polar Bears. Hunting of Canadian polar bears is rising at alarming rates—in excess of 10 percent over previous years, according to the Center…