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Amazing Video: 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds
Environment  (tags: global warming, NASA, 2011, 1880, climate change )

Nancy
- 104 days ago - biologicaldiversity.org
The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000.
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Top Climate Scientist Says Heat Waves in Texas & Moscow Caused By Global Warming
Environment  (tags: Climate, Global Warming, Environment, Texas )

Katie
- 114 days ago - treehugger.com
Most climate scientists are beyond reluctant to attribute a specific weather event to global warming. But now, NASA's Dr. James Hansen and two of his colleagues from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies have released a paper linking the heat waves in Mo
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Global Warming Benefits Parasites, Disadvantages Fish
Environment  (tags: global warming, ocean warming, fish, parasites, fisheries )

Myron
- 171 days ago - fis.com
The researchers saw behavioural changes in infected fish, suggesting that parasites may manipulate host behaviour to make them move to warmer temperatures, where the host's growth rate slowed.
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Effects of Global Warming Threaten Island Nation Maldives
Environment  (tags: global warming, Maldives, Trash, Population, Environment )

Katie
- 221 days ago - time.com
At first sight, the Maldives looks like paradise on earth, with its turquoise atolls, sparkling sand, fish in all the colors of the rainbow, and numerous luxury hotels. Maldives is a democracy with a dynamic young population..
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Kenyan Heroine Wangari Maathai Dies in Hospital
Environment  (tags: death, human rights, ecology, feminism, forests, traditional people, global warming, Kenya )

Jytte
- 242 days ago - capitalfm.co.ke
BREAKING NEWS NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 26 - 2004 Nobel Peace prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died while undergoing treatment at the Nairobi Hospital. Prof Maathai succumbed to ovarian cancer at 11pm on Sunday night
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Choking the Oil Sands
Environment  (tags: Climate change, global warming, Oil Sands, oil pipeline, Keystone XL pipeline, Enbridge )

Dianne
- 272 days ago - www2.macleans.ca
Environmental protests planned for Sept in Wash.D.C over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta's Oil Sands to the Gulf of Mexico are discussed in this Sept 5/11 Maclean's Mag. (Canadian) article. Long but worth the read!
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ACTION ALERT: Stop a New Attack Threatening Polar Bears! PLEASE SIGN!
Environment  (tags: polar bears, global warming, destruction oceans, legalisation, conservation, environment )

Simone
- 288 days ago - online.nwf.org
America's polar bears are already struggling as their ice melts from global warming and drilling companies attempt to invade their last remaining protected waters. Now your members of Congress are considering legislation that cripples conservation
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ACTION ALERT: Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline! PLEASE SIGN !
Environment  (tags: tar sands, pipeline, wildlife, threatened, global warming, habitatdestruction, songbirds., ecosystems )

Simone
- 311 days ago - secure.nrdconline.org
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada's Boreal forest to refineries in Texas, driving more destruction of songbird habitat, fueling global warming, and threatening drinking water for millions of Americans.
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Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
Environment  (tags: Polar Shift, Rising Seas, global warming, climate change )

Anna
- 321 days ago - news.discovery.com
How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the....
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Global Warming Pause Linked to Sulfur in China
Environment  (tags: China, Global warming, sulfur, Environment )

Katie
- 325 days ago - physorg.com
Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth's temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record.
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Speak Up for Our Oceans
Environment  (tags: climate change, global warming, oceans, greenhouse gases, pollution )

Marilyn
- 325 days ago - action.biologicaldiversity.org
We can't let acid oceans become a generation-defining crisis. Tell EPA and the Washington Department of Ecology to act now to protect our oceans and coasts.
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Global Warning: Scientists in U-Turn as They Claim Extreme Weather and Climate Change Are Linked
Environment  (tags: Climate change, Global warming, weather, environment )

Anna
- 329 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Climate change is inextricably linked to the extreme weather that has wreaked destruction all over the world in the last ten years, scientists now claim.Experts are convinced of a legitimate link between the two after more than 20 years of reluctance.....
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New Study Indicates Carbon Release to Atmosphere Ten Times Faster Than in the Past
Environment  (tags: atmosphere, carbon release, pollution, global warming )

Katie
- 354 days ago - physorg.com
The rate of release of carbon into the atmosphere today is nearly 10 times as fast as during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 55.9 million years ago, the best analog we have for current global warming...
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With Global Warming, Arctic Access Will Diminish By Land But Improve By Sea
Environment  (tags: Global warming, Arctic, Land, Sea level )

Anna
- 358 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Global warming over the next 40 years will cut through Arctic transportation networks like a double-edged sword, limiting access in certain areas and vastly increasing it in others, a new UCLA study predicts.
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Global Warming May Increase the Capacity of Trees to Store Carbon
Environment  (tags: Global Warming, Trees, CO2, forests, atmosphere )

Anna
- 360 days ago - sciencedaily.com
One helpful action anyone can take in response to global warming is to plant trees and preserve forests. Trees and plants capture carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, thereby removing the most abundant greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and storing some
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