NewsRack: 'Species' news in 'Climate Change' topic for user demo

Fauna that lived in Mayan times survive climate change (Cached)	17.6.2013	New Kerala: World News
Guatemala City, June 17 : Fauna that was prevalent at the height of the ancestral Mayan culture has survived prolonged droughts, hurricanes and the deleterious effects of climate change on biodiversity in the areas where the cities of that millennial culture stood, experts say.
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Could the world's biggest marine sanctuary be declared in the Antarctic? \| Graham Readfearn	17.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Proposals will go before a commission next month to help protect thousands of species in Antarctic waters An extraordinarily big thing might happen in the world of marine conservation next month at a meeting in Germany of a little known international commission. And while you probably haven't read much about it, the outcome could see the creation of the two largest areas of protected ocean on the planet that would lock out fishing from more than 1.5 million square kilometres of ocean around the Antarctic. The areas in question – the Ross Sea and coastal areas in East Antarctica – are almost untouched by the often-clumsy hands of human progress and give a home to thousands of marine species. Across the two areas are about a million pairs of Adélie penguins, more than a dozen species of whale, more than a third of the world's population of emperor penguins, abundant krill and fish species and the Ross Sea region's top predator – the toothfish, which can grow to two metres weighing 200 ...
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Green diary rescue: Wolves under the gun, eyeballing damselflies & mapping the polar cyclone	16.6.2013	Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 230 of these spotlighting more than 12,964 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 50 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Green Diary of the Week Wolves: "Mission Accomplished" —by Agathena : "The original mission was wolf recovery begun in 1994 because of expiration (local extinction) of the grey wolf in many areas. Recovery goals of an equitably distributed wolf population containing at least 300 wolves and 30 breeding pairs in 3 recovery areas within Montana (MT), Idaho (ID), and Wyoming (WY) for at least 3 consecutive years were ...
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With Treetop Trail, Philadelphia Zoo Opens Grounds to Prowlers	15.6.2013	NYT > Environment
With Treetop Trail, Philadelphia Zoo Opens Grounds to Prowlers
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Acidifying seawater sees oysters in race to grow shells	14.6.2013	New Scientist: Opinion
Acidifying seawater sees oysters in race to grow shells
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Plankton DNA sequencing uncovers secrets of white cliffs of Dover (Cached)	14.6.2013	New Kerala: World News
Washington, June 14 : Researchers in a major international project have sequenced the genome of Emiliania huxleyi, the microscopic plankton species whose chalky skeletons form the iconic white cliffs of Dover.
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Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy	14.6.2013	New Scientist: Focus on America
Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy
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US Researchers Explore Deep Caribbean Reefs	14.6.2013	International Herald Tribune: Americas
US Researchers Explore Deep Caribbean Reefs
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US researchers explore deep Caribbean reefs	14.6.2013	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
Scientists with the Smithsonian Institution have discovered at least one new fish species at a deep reef off Curacao while conducting a yearlong project to gather data on temperature and biodiversity for monitoring climate change effects in the Caribbean.
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Prehistoric armoured fish had the world's first abs	13.6.2013	New Scientist: Living World
Prehistoric armoured fish had the world's first abs
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Third of all UK honeybee hives wiped out in wet winter	13.6.2013	New Scientist: Sex and Cloning
Third of all UK honeybee hives wiped out in wet winter
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Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change	13.6.2013	New Scientist: Sex and Cloning
Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change
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Dot Earth Blog: A Film Presses the Climate, Health and Security Case for Nuclear Energy	13.6.2013	NYT > Environment
Dot Earth Blog: A Film Presses the Climate, Health and Security Case for Nuclear Energy
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How the cold war spawned the environmental movement	10.6.2013	New Scientist: Opinion
How the cold war spawned the environmental movement
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Climate change is happening but we can meet the challenge \| Sarah van Gelder	8.6.2013	Guardian: Environment
As carbon emissions rise inexorably, it's easy to feel powerless as catastrophe looms. But activism is a chance to take control "The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere just hit 400ppm," I told Alex, my 23-year-old son, as we were catching up on news. "So that's it, huh?" he asked. I couldn't think what to say. Alex had just returned from college, a new graduate, ready to start his life as an adult. Like many members of his age group, Alex knows that 350ppm is the threshold for safe levels of carbon in the atmosphere. Pass that level and, climate scientists tell us, things get dicey: soils dry out, damaging food production. There is more frequent and more intense flooding, coastlines get inundated, species go extinct. Farming, which relies on predictable weather patterns, is disrupted, and dry land farming areas turn to desert. Forests die from new infestations and drought, and become more prone to monster fires. Young people like Alex are coming of age in a world that's changing ...
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Vilsack: Farmers Must Respond To Rising Temperatures	6.6.2013	NPR News
Farmers, foresters, and ranchers need to respond now to the impact of climate change on their businesses, says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "You're going to see crops produced in one area no longer able to be produced, unless we mitigate and adapt now," he says.
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Vilsack: Farmers Must Respond to Rising Temperatures	6.6.2013	NPR Health Science
Farmers, foresters, and ranchers need to respond now to the impact of climate change on their businesses, says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "You're going to see crops produced in one area no longer able to be produced, unless we mitigate and adapt now," he says.
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Greens leader: Abbott climate stance jeopardises the future of children	5.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Christine Milne plans 'keep the bastards honest' campaign, casting party as Senate curb on Coalition excesses Lenore Taylor
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Destroying a Planet Without Really Trying	4.6.2013	Mother Jones
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you're an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what's happening here or, for that matter, imagine you're an historian 100 years from now—assuming there are any historians 100 years from now, which is not obvious—and you're looking back at what's happening today. You'd see something quite remarkable. For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence. And there are other dangers like pandemics, which have to do with globalization and interaction. So ...
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How to destroy the future \| Noam Chomsky	4.6.2013	Guardian: Environment
From the Cuban missile crisis to a fossil fuels frenzy, the US is intent on winning the race to disaster What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you're an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what's happening here or, for that matter, imagine you're an historian 100 years from now – assuming there are any historians 100 years from now, which is not obvious – and you're looking back at what's happening today. You'd see something quite remarkable. For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence. And there are other dangers like pandemics, which have ...
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