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Desert Dust Alters Ecology Of Colorado Alpine Meadows
Accelerated snowmelt --
precipitated by desert dust
blowing into the mountains
-- changes how alpine plants
respond to seasonal climate
cues that regulate their
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Climate Change And The Mystery Of The Shrinking Sheep
Milder winters are causing
Scotland's wild breed of
Soay sheep to get smaller,
despite the evolutionary
benefits of possessing a
large body, according to new
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New Type Of El Nino Could Mean More Hurricanes Make Landfall
A new study suggests that
the form of El Nino may be
changing potentially causing
not only a greater number of
hurricanes than in average
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Small Heat-Shielded Habitats Could Help Threatened Species Survive Climate Change
Intelligent countryside
management could improve the
survival chances of animal
and plant species threatened
by climate change. The
... > full story
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Pacific Northwest Forests Could Store More Carbon, Help Address Greenhouse Issues
July 3, 2009 — The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed ... > full story -
Faults And Earthquakes In China Monitored From Space
July 3, 2009 — China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation ... > full story -
QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms
July 2, 2009 — "June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up. ... > full story -
Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland
July 2, 2009 — New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is ... > full story -
Did Melting Snow Shape America's Southern Rocky Mountains?
July 2, 2009 — Is it possible that something as insubstantial and transitory as snow could be responsible for large scale vertical movements of Earth's surface and the excavation of deeply incised ... > full story -
Plants Save The Earth From An Icy Doom
July 2, 2009 — When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth's surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over entirely? This has been a puzzle to climate scientists because leading models ... > full story -
Mid-Pliocene Asian Monsoon Intensification And The Onset Of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
July 2, 2009 — The late Pliocene onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation is one of the most important steps in the Cenozoic global cooling. Although most attempts have been focused on high-latitude climate ... > full story -
Ancient Supervolcano's Eruption Caused Decade Of Severe Winters
July 2, 2009 — Previous studies have suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it erupted about 74,000 years ago, triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, and also may have produced a ... > full story -
King Crabs Go Deep To Avoid Hot Water
July 2, 2009 — Researchers have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant - the king crab. The results reveal temperature as a driving ... > full story -
Plants’ Internal Clock Can Improve Climate Change Models
July 2, 2009 — The ability of plants to tell the time, a mechanism common to all living beings, enables them to survive, grow and reproduce. Scientists have studied this circadian clock from a molecular viewpoint ... > full story
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