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040428 |
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BBC |
Flatulence Tax N Z040428 B B C
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060112 |
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WSJ |
Study Finds Global Warming Is Killing Frogs
- likely cause: global warming that promotes a fungus that is fatal
to the frogs.
- since 1980, as many as 122 amphibian species are likely to have become
extinct and one-third of known amphibian species are threatened.
- "Climate change may be helping
the fungus spread, but we don't know where the fungus came from" or whether
it can survive without amphibian
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061206 |
htm
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USAToday |
Marine Life Threatened By Warming
- Phytoplankton are the microscopic plant life that zooplankton and
other marine animals eat, essentially the grain crop of the world's
oceans
- As water temperatures increased from 1999 to 2004, the crop of
phytoplankton dropped significantly, about 200 million tons a year. On average
about 50 billion tons of phytoplankton are produced yearly, Behrenfeld
said.
- Phytoplankton, which turn sunlight into food, need nutrients such
as nitrogen, phosphates and iron from colder water below, Behrenfeld said.
With warmer surface water, it's harder for the phytoplankton to get those
nutrients.
- Another worry is that with reduced phytoplankton, the world's oceans
will suck up less carbon dioxide, increasing the Earth's chief global warming
gas, said NASA ocean biology project manager Paula Bontempi. That's because
phytoplankton take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in making
food.
- A study earlier this year linked increases in Western U.S. wildfires
to global warming and a mega-study showed that dozens of species of plants
and animals were dying off from global warming.
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070321 |
htm
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AssocPrs |
River Pollution Global
- Report: World's greatest rivers in danger
- About 20 percent of freshwater fish, plant species are extinct
or endangered
- The Yangtze River gets more than half
of China's industrial waste and sewage
- The Danube -- home to more than half of Europe's fish species --
has lost 80 percent of its surrounding wetlands and flood plains because
of dams
- Garbage heaps, pig waste and discharge from factories, hospitals
and mines possibly including radioactive waste -- lie at the bottom of the
reservoir at the Three Gorges Dam
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070511 |
htm
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USAtoday |
Black Death In Squirrels Denver
- No humans here have been infected with plague, the "Black Death"
disease that killed millions in 14th-century Europe. A state hotline gets
50-75 calls daily about dead rodent
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070711 |
htm
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Reuters |
Cows That Burp Less Seen Helping In Climate Change
- new diets for cows that
make them belch less is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- the average dairy cow belches out about 100 to 200 liters
of methane each day
- Agriculture is responsible for about seven percent
of UK greenhouse gas emissions
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081214 |
htm
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Reuters |
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- Huge swarms of stinging jellyfish and
similar slimy animals are ruining beaches in Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico,
the Mediterranean, Australia and elsewhere
- 500,000 people stung in the Chesapeake Ba
- more than 1,000 fist-sized comb jellies can be found
in a cubic yard (meter) of Black Sea water during a bloom
- And it says a third of the total weight of all life in California's
Monterey Bay is made up of jellyfish.
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091115 |
htm
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AssocPrs |
The Associated Press: Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world
- they tossed the translucent jellyfish
back into the bay, giants weighing up to 200 kilograms (450 pounds
- The venom of the Nomura, the world's largest jellyfish, a creature
up to 2 meters (6 feet) in diameter, can ruin a whole day's catch by tainting
or killing fish
- Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, they are now an
almost annual occurrence along several thousand kilometers (miles) of Japanese
coast, and far beyond Japan.
- much as
warming has helped ticks, bark beetles and other pests to spread to new
latitudes.
- The gelatinous seaborne creatures are blamed for decimating fishing
industries in the Bering and Black seas, forcing the shutdown of seaside
power and desalination plants in Japan, the Middle East and Africa, and
terrorizing beachgoers worldwide, the U.S. National Science Foundation
says.
- The waters of the Yellow Sea, meanwhile, have warmed
as much as 1.7 degrees C (3 degrees F) over the past quarter-century.
- "Their growth rates are quite amazing."
- a correlation between warming and jellyfish on a much larger
scale, in at least 11 locations,
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