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MSNBC
The summer sea ice in the Arctic is melting at a rate never before seen by experts, setting a record low the last two days that’s likely to continue through September, top sea ice experts said in two new reports that suggest mankind’s emissions of greenhouse gases are at least partly responsible.
The National Snow and [...]

AP
Huge haze clouds over the Indian Ocean contribute as much to atmospheric warming in Asia as greenhouse gases and play a significant role in the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, according to a study published Thursday.
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Researchers concluded that the pollution – mostly caused by the burning of wood and plant matter for cooking in India [...]

BBC
Arctic sea ice is expected to retreat to a record low by the end of this summer, scientists have predicted.
Measurements made by the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) showed the extent of sea ice on 8 August was almost 30% below the long-term average.
Because the region’s melting season runs until [...]

Uni of Leicester
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In Central Siberia alone, fires have destroyed 38 000 km2 in the extreme fire year of 2003. In that year the smoke plumes were so huge that they caused air pollution as far as in the United States. An international team of scientists believes that Siberian fires are influenced by climate change. The [...]

reuters
Costa Rica has lost up to half of its monkeys over the last 12 years as developers expanding into their jungle habitat isolate them in small communities, scientists said on Thursday.
Populations of monkeys including howler, white face, spider and squirrel monkeys have declined by the thousands, scientists at a seminar estimated.
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The spider monkey, characterized by [...]

WWF
“If I compare this land to what it used to be in the 1960s, it is difficult for me to recognize it,” recalls Qi Mei Duo Jie, a 71-year-old nomadic herder from Yanshiping in China’s central-western Qinghai Province.”
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Qi Mei Duo Jie’s family has been raising yaks for at least three generations.
“This year has been very [...]

MSNBC
Off Australia’s east coast, you will find the Blue Outback, a kaleidoscope of life that is the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s biggest structure built by living organisms. But it is under siege from climate change and warming waters that have twice bleached its spectacularly colored corals white.
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The mass bleaching in the summer of 2002 [...]

AP
Scientists on Tuesday blamed global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake in remote southern Chile that faded away in just two months, leaving just a crater behind.
The disappearance of the lake in Bernardo O’Higgins National Park was discovered in late May by park rangers, who were stunned to find a 130-foot deep crater [...]

Follow up report on “Greenland ice sheet loss speeding up“.
reuters
New research shows that man-made climate change could cause the Greenland ice sheet to break up in hundreds, rather than thousands, of years, the chair of a United Nations panel of scientists said on Monday.
Its entire collapse would raise sea-levels globally by around 7 meters (23 [...]

AP
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In a problem that’s pervasive in much of China, over-farming has drawn down the water table so low that desert is overtaking farmland. Authorities have ordered farmers here in Gansu province to vacate their properties over the next 3 1/2 years, and will replace 20 villages with newly planted grass in [...]