Headlines: Impacts: Environmental Destruction
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- Following the Tracks of a Killer Mountain Beetle
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Dr. Logan is an authority on the effects of temperature on insect life cycles. Across the way he could see likely signs of a particularly aggressive organism he was seeking but hoping not to find here, the mountain pine beetle.
- In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It
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Jesse Logan retired in July as head of the beetle research unit for the United States Forest Service at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Utah. He is an authority on the effects of temperature on insect life cycles. That expertise has landed him smack in the middle of a debate over protecting grizzly bears.
- Ancient Ice Shelf Breaks Free from Canadian Arctic
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A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canadas Arctic, scientists said.
- U.S. Wants Polar Bears on Endangered List
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The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the worlds most recognizable animals out of existence.
- Oceans May Rise Over 4 1/2 Feet by 2100
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The worlds oceans may rise up to 140 cms (4 ft 7 in) by 2100 due to global warming, a faster than expected increase that could threaten low-lying coasts from Florida to Bangladesh, a researcher said on Thursday.
- By 2040, Greenhouse Gases Could Lead to an Open Arctic Sea in Summers
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New studies project that the Arctic Ocean could be mostly open water in summer by 2040 — several decades earlier than previously expected — partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases.
- Taking a Stand on Global Warming
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Montana will become a desert by 2100 if nothing is done to slow global warming, according to four MSU students, who researched the issue and requested an appearance before the Bozeman city council.
- Ice-melt Isolates Remote Communities in Canada
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Aboriginal communities in Ontario s far north are becoming increasingly isolated as rising temperatures melt their winter route to the outside world and impede their access to supplies.
- Melting Arctic Makes Way for Man
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Researchers Aboard Icebreaker Say Shipping Could Add to Risks for Ecosystem
- Report: Global Warming Threatens Rich Fall Colors
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New Englands iconic autumn foliage, spectacular in its color, may one day fade permanently rather than just annually.
- Mayors Find Evidence of Global Warming in Alaska
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Vanta Shafer says it used to be a shorter walk to see Exit Glacier 14 years ago when she was a mother entertaining her children and not the mayor of nearby Seward. Since then, the glacier has retreated hundreds of feet, almost too far to walk to, Shafer said.
- Polar Bears Drown, Islands Appear in Arctic Thaw
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Polar bears are drowning and receding Arctic glaciers have uncovered previously unknown islands in a drastic 2006 summer thaw widely blamed on global warming.
- Global Warming Endangers National Parks
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Global warming is threatening the health of Yellowstone, Yosemite and ten other national parks in the West, according to a report released today by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
- Cross Country: Hurricane in the Hamptons?
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NEW YORK -- Hurricanes bring obvious hazards like wind and water, but one of the obstacles preventing sensible hurricane preparation is a moral hazard. The evidence can be found here on the eastern tip of New York state.
- Climate warming threatens wineries
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Washington coast may buck trend WASHINGTON -- Climate warming could spell disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar U.S. wine industry. Areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 percent -- and possibly as much as 81 percent -- by the end of this century, according to a study Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Wildfire Increase Linked to Climate
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Higher temperatures over 34 years -- rather than land-use changes -- have led to more blazes, researchers say. Theyre sure its not a fluke. Rising temperatures throughout the West have stoked an increase in large wildfires over the past 34 years as spring comes earlier, mountain snows melt sooner and forests dry to tinder, scientists reported Thursday.
- Climate change puts parks at risk
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Natural preserves may lose distinctive features. GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. - Global warming is erasing the glaciers from Glacier National Park and the Joshua trees from Joshua Tree National Park, and may turn the Everglades into the Neverglades.
- Greenland's Ice Sheet Is Slip-Sliding Away
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The massive glaciers are deteriorating twice as fast as they were five years ago. If the ice thaws entirely, sea level would rise 21 feet.
- Next Victim of Warming: The Beaches
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — When scientists consider the possible effects of global warming, there is a lot they dont know. But they can say one thing for sure: sea levels will rise.
- U.S. foot-dragging fuels global warming
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By the time we get proof of climate change, it will be too late to reverse course. ON JUNE 12, 1992, President George H.W. Bush, appearing at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, signed the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention set the goal of averting dangerous human interference with the climate system. After adding his name to it, the president called on world leaders to join him in translating the words spoken here into concrete action. When he subsequently submitted the treaty to the Senate, it was ratified by unanimous consent.
