Articles Tagged with “climate change” - Page 2

21 Articles found tagged with “climate change”.

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  Climate Change and Sea Turtles

  The warming of the planet due to climate change is causing reproduction patterns to change.

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  Is There Hope for Conservation?

  James Borrell’s recent TEDx talk on conservation achievements so far. Should we be more optimistic in conservation? Get involved with the debate.

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  Forest Degradation Overlooked in the Amazon

  Research discovered that selective logging and wildfires resulted in an annual loss of 54 billion tonnes of carbon from the Brazilian Amazon in 2010. This is the equivalent of 40% of the yearly carbon loss from deforestation.

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  Moose Die-Off in North America linked to Climate Change

  In all regions across the continent, there is no single cause of the decline, however, they do all appear to be linked by rising temperatures caused by climate change.

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  Climate Change and Caribou Calves

  When the time that plants are most nutritious differs from the time the animals need their nutrients the most, it is known as a trophic mismatch.

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  Climate Change Winners

  One new study has proved that climate change is not causing all species to lose out – some will actually benefit from a warmer world.

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  Tropical Birds Feel the Heat of Climate Change

  The wide range of numbers on future possible extinctions is because of the many decisions about climate change that must still be made that could affect the outcome, such as will carbon reductions mitigate temperature rises?

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  How far can a polar bear swim?

  Evolution is an amazing thing and perhaps one day people will look back on these studies to demonstrate just how astonishing it can be.

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  World Set for Extreme Weather Conditions

  Scientific models also show that it is ‘very likely’ (a term defined by the IPCC as a 90%-100% probability) that the “length, frequency and/or intensity of warm spells or heat waves will increase over most land areas”

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  Jellyfish Contribute to Climate Change

  Climate change has already had an influence on marine populations, but is it possible these same populations are in turn altering the climate?