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• 2 degrees warmer climate in late Pliocene meant 12-32 meters higher sea levels | Bits of Science

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• NASA: climate change leads to enormous ecosystem shifts – 40% of biomes flip this century | Bits of

  The results of studies that try to quantify the effects of climate change on biodiversity loss which include damage to the micro scale level of subspecies and genetic var [...]

• US population growth forecast 13% till 2025 | Bits of Science

  With fertility rate close to replacement level and continuously high immigration the US population grew by 9.7 percent over the last decade – uniquely high for a wester [...]

• Two hottest years ever: 2014 will set new world temperature record – and 2015 will break it | Bits

  El Niño Southern Oscillation index: duration and intensity of La Niña and El Niño years. El Niño is usually defined as a positive temperature anomaly in the east and [...]

• Extremophile bacteria found living on South American volcanoes | Bits of Science

  Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth have found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils [...]

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  Bits of Science Then of course we also have our climate-ecology series that wanted an update based on IPCC SR15. Judging by IPCC’s special report on 1.5 degrees the ecological benefits of strengthenin...