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Climate change threatening China’s water resources
Posted by Newstrack India: None Given on April 23rd, 2011
Newstrack India: Climate change is having an adverse impact on China's water resources, said the country's water resources minister.
Chen Lei's comments came during a meeting on climate change where he pointed out that global warming has become an important environmental issue, with water being one of the sectors most directly affected.
"China faces an imbalance between the supply and demand of water to support its rapid social and economic development, while protecting the natural environment and ecosystems,"...
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Extinction rates being altered by contemporary climate change
Posted by Newstrack India: None Given on April 22nd, 2011
Newstrack India: A study has found that contemporary climate change is affecting extinction rates.
Local extinction rates of American pikas have increased nearly five-fold in the last 10 years, and the rate at which the climate-sensitive species is moving up mountain slopes has increased 11-fold, since the 20th century.
The research strongly suggests that the American pika's distribution throughout the Great Basin is changing at an increasingly rapid rate.
The pika (Ochotona princeps), a small, hamster-looking...