Climate Change

Chesapeake Waters Warming, Study Says, Posing Challenges To Healing Bay

"The Chesapeake Bay's waters are warming, in some places more rapidly than the region's air temperatures, researchers from the University of Maryland say. If unchecked, scientists say, the trend could complicate costly, long-running efforts to restore the ailing estuary, worsen fish-suffocating dead zones and alter the food web on which the bay's fish and crabs depend."

Source: Baltimore Sun, 10/15/2015

"The Rapid and Startling Decline Of World’s Vast Boreal Forests"

"Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the fate of the huge boreal forest that spans from Scandinavia to northern Canada. Unprecedented warming in the region is jeopardizing the future of a critical ecosystem that makes up nearly a third of the earth’s forest cover."

Source: YaleE360, 10/14/2015

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