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July, 2017

  • 3 July

    Global warming affecting giant clam population

    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…

  • 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 …

  • 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….

  • 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