Yale Environment 360: Younger Americans Disengaged On Global Warming, Survey Finds

young Americans are just as divided as older Americans about whether global warming is real

54 percent of Americans aged 18 to 34 said they were not at all worried or not very worried about global warming

young Americans are just as divided [...]

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As Climate Warms, Species May Need to Migrate or Perish by Carl Zimmer: Yale Environment 360

This strategy — which goes by various names including assisted migration, assisted colonization, and, most recently, managed relocation — only emerged in the scientific literature in 2007. Over the past two years it has attracted widespread interest. A number of [...]

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Giant Underground Fossil Forests Show Record of Warming

James Owen
for National Geographic News

Huge tracts of prehistoric rain forest ravaged by global warming more than 300 million years ago have been found preserved underneath the U.S. Midwest, according to scientists.
The fossilized forests, including one [...]

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Climate change threatens two-thirds of California’s unique plants, study says – Los Angeles Times

The state’s plants are at risk of collapse unless they migrate or are moved to refuges, scientists say. Animals may also be separated from plants on which they depend, according to researchers.
By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Tropics insects ‘face extinction’

 
Many tropical insects face extinction by the end of this century unless they adapt to the rising global temperatures predicted, US scientists have said.
Researchers led by the University of Washington said insects in the tropics were much more sensitive to temperature changes than those elsewhere.

Unlike warm-blooded [...]

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