If you don’t see many giant clams in Guam, it’s because there aren’t many now that the species is being affected more and more by global climate change. It’s an issue across the globe – warming ocean temperatures aren’t only affecting coral, but also giant clams…
July, 2017
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3 July
Climate change impact: Sunderbans steadily losing its famed mangroves
The total forest cover of the Indian Sunderbans as assessed by remote sensing studies for the year 1986 was about 2,246.839 sq. km., which gradually declined by 2,201.41 sq. km. in 1996, then down to 2168.914 sq km in 2001 and to 2122.421 sq km in 2012. The loss in …
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1 July
Three years to safeguard our climate
After roughly 1°C of global warming driven by human activity, ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are already losing mass at an increasing rate. Summer sea ice is disappearing in the Arctic and coral reefs are dying from heat stress — entire ecosystems are starting to collapse….
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1 July
Black carbon varies, but stubbornly persists, in snow and ice around the world
A new University of Colorado Boulder study comparing dissolved black carbon deposition on ice and snow in ecosystems around the world (including Antarctica, the Arctic, and alpine regions of the Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, and Alps) shows that while concentrations vary widely, significant amounts can persist in both pristine and non-pristine …
June, 2017
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29 June
Climate change impacts Antarctic biodiversity habitat
Ice-free areas of Antarctica – home to more than 99 per cent of the continent’s terrestrial plants and animals – could expand by more than 17,000km2 by the end of this century, a study published today in Nature reveals…
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29 June
A million bottles a minute: world’s plastic binge ‘as dangerous as climate change’
A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021, creating an environmental crisis some campaigners predict will be as serious as climate change…
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28 June
Ten million tons of fish wasted every year despite declining fish stocks
Industrial fishing fleets dump nearly 10 million tonnes of good fish back into the ocean every year, according to new research….
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27 June
As climate stirs Arctic sea ice faster, pollution tags along
A warming climate is not just melting the Arctic’s sea ice; it is stirring the remaining ice faster, increasing the odds that ice-rafted pollution will foul a neighboring country’s waters, says a new study…
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27 June
Greenland’s meltwater is raising sea levels at a growing rate
Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier….
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27 June
The impacts of deep ocean mining will ‘last forever’, scientists warn
The search for raw materials to feed the all-powerful Sarlacc of capitalism is pushing industries to increasingly remote and alien environments….
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27 June
New study confirms the oceans are warming rapidly
Although there’s some uncertainty in the distribution among Earth’s ocean basins, there’s no question that the ocean is heating rapidly….
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26 June
Storms caused massive Antarctic sea ice loss in 2016
A series of unprecedented storms over the Southern Ocean likely caused the most dramatic decline in Antarctic sea ice seen to date, a new study finds….