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Skinny Whale Syndrome
Gray whales are losing weight and facing the possibility of starvation. Scientist's have dubbed this plight of the gray whale, "Skinny Whale Syndrome".

Published by Rose Kivi (3,699 pts ) on Feb 28, 2009 to
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Understanding Climate Change: How Does Global Warming Effect Climate?
The earth is growing warmer due to trapped heat in the upper atmosphere. This is called the greenhouse effect. While many people think the greenhouse effect is a bad thing, without it the earth would remain cold 365 days a year. Is global warming effecting the climate for the negative or the positiv

Published by Summer Banks (7,543 pts ) on Feb 23, 2009 to
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Greenland Losing Ice and Glaciers as Global Warming Intensifies
Global warming is now at that point where it has intensified. There is more than enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to cause Greenland to lose its glaciers and Arctic sea ice rapidly. Today, scientists foresee far greater devastation than we can imagine, floods to famine and diseases

Published by ciel s cantoria (3,903 pts ) on Feb 10, 2009 to
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How does Global Warming Change Winter Weather?
The kind of winter that US and other countries experienced lately is quite a contradiction to the supposed warming effects of the global climate change. Scientists maintain a logical explanation to this to thwart the criticisms of the non–believers, that their informations is reliable.

Published by ciel s cantoria (3,903 pts ) on Jan 31, 2009 to
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Using Ice Melt as a Proof of Global Warming
The rate at which land ice is melting can be used to asses climate change. 2 trillion tons of land ice has melted in Greenland alone since 2003.

Published by nanjowe (1,353 pts ) on Jan 31, 2009 to
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Sierra Frogs - Will they Survive Global Warming?
Global warming was found to be one of the elemental causes for the massive disappearance of the Sierra frogs. Global warming climate changes and too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are only some of the causes that scientists found to have caused this environmental problem.

Published by ciel s cantoria (3,903 pts ) on Jan 15, 2009 to
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How Climate Change is Destroying Human Life Around the World
A non-profit organization called Germanwatch presented the 4th edition of the Global Climate Risk Indexes at a UN Climate Change conference in Poznan, Poland.The risk indexes measure the risks associated with extreme weather events like floods, hurricanes or heat waves to the human population.

Published by nanjowe (1,353 pts ) on Dec 23, 2008 to
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The Effect of Global Warming on Ice Beetles
In 1968 Dave Kavanaugh a second year medical student saw a small beetle that he didn’t recognize scurry up his boot. He was on a hike up to Gray’s Peak in Colorado. Little did he know that decades later the black beetle would be an ideal climate change indicator.

Published by nanjowe (1,353 pts ) on Dec 23, 2008 to
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Rising Sea Levels: Environmental Impact
This is the second article of a two-part series on the effects of rising sea levels. In this article, I discuss the ways in which rising tides can decimate local ecosystems.

Published by Matt Schelke (1,085 pts ) on Dec 23, 2008 to
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Rising Sea Levels Part 1: Human Habitats in Danger
One of the key issues of global warming is the rise in world sea levels. But this rise doesn't just impact the animal and plant kingdoms, but deeply affects the human landscape, too.

Published by Matt Schelke (1,085 pts ) on Dec 16, 2008 to
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