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White-Nose Syndrome Death In Bats: First Prevention Proposed By Ecologists
March 5, 2009 — White-nose syndrome is a poorly understood condition that, in the two years since its discovery, has spread to at least seven Northeastern states and killed as many as half a million bats. Now ... > full story -
Stalagmites Confirm 9,000-Year Lower Brazil Rainfall
February 25, 2009 — Climate researchers expected to see wet/dry periods in Brazil's Nordeste region similar to the rest of South America in the past 9,000 years. But the area experienced the opposite, drought when rain ... > full story -
White-Nose Kills Hundreds Of Bats Near Abandoned Mines In Pennsylvania
February 3, 2009 — Several hundred little brown bats are dead from White-Nose Syndrome in Lackawanna County, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking to residents for help uncovering other sites where this ... > full story -
Biodiversity Hotspot Enabled Neanderthals To Survive Longer In South East Of Spain
February 2, 2009 — Over 14,000 years ago during the last Pleistocene Ice Age, when a large part of the European continent was covered in ice and snow, Neanderthals in the region of Gibraltar in the south of the Iberian ... > full story -
Voracious Sponges In Underwater Caves Save Reefs
January 13, 2009 — Tropical oceans are known as the deserts of the sea. And yet this unlikely environment is the very place where the rich and fertile coral reef grows. Dutch researchers have investigated how caves in ... > full story -
Unusual Microbial Ropes Grow Slowly In Cave Lake
December 19, 2008 — Deep inside the Frasassi cave system in Italy and more than 1,600 feet below the Earth's surface, divers found filamentous ropes of microbes growing in the cold water, according to a team of ... > full story -
Magma Discovered In Its 'Natural Habitat' For First Time
December 17, 2008 — A crew drilling on the Big Island of Hawaii has discovered magma, the molten rock material -- never before found in its natural habitat underground -- that is the central ingredient in the evolution ... > full story -
Decline Of Roman And Byzantine Empires 1,400 Years Ago May Have Been Driven By Climate Change
December 5, 2008 — The decline of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in the Eastern Mediterranean more than 1,400 years ago may have been driven by unfavorable climate ... > full story -
Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought
November 25, 2008 — Enormous cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, that once inhabited a large swathe of Europe, from Spain to the Urals, died out 27,800 years ago, around 13 millennia earlier than was previously believed, ... > full story -
Ancient China: Lack Of Rainfall Could Have Contributed To Social Upheaval And Fall Of Dynasties
November 6, 2008 — Chinese history is replete with the rise and fall of dynasties, but researchers now have identified a natural phenomenon that may have been the last straw for some of them: a weakening of the summer ... > full story
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