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Southern California Sagebrush Better Suited to Climate Change, Study Finds
April 1, 2013 — California sagebrush in the southern part of the state will adjust better to climate change than sagebrush populations in the north, according to ... > full story -
Soils in Newly Forested Areas Store Substantial Carbon That Could Help Offset Climate Change
April 1, 2013 — Surface appearances can be so misleading: In most forests, the amount of carbon held in soils is substantially greater than the amount contained in the trees themselves, according to new ... > full story -
Streams Stressed by Pharmaceutical Pollution
April 1, 2013 — Pharmaceuticals commonly found in the environment are disrupting streams, with unknown impacts on aquatic life and water quality. So reports a new paper that highlights the ecological cost of ... > full story -
New Models Predict Drastically Greener Arctic in Coming Decades
March 31, 2013 — New research predicts that rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening," or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In a new paper, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas ... > full storyMore: -
Splendid Skadar Lake (Montenegro and Albania) Surprises With New Species of Snails
March 29, 2013 — The Skadar Lake system at the border of Montenegro and Albania is a well-known hotspot of freshwater biodiversity and harbors a highly diverse mollusc fauna. As in many of the Balkan lakes, the ... > full story -
New Bone Survey Method Could Aid Long-Term Survival of Arctic Caribou
March 27, 2013 — A study adds critical new data for understanding caribou calving grounds in an area under consideration for oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife ... > full story -
New Fossil Species from a Fish-Eat-Fish World When Limbed Animals Evolved
March 27, 2013 — Scientists who famously discovered the lobe-finned fish fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a species with some of the clearest evidence of the evolutionary transition from fish to limbed animals, have ... > full story -
Hope for Galapagos Wildlife Threatened by Marine Invaders
March 26, 2013 — Increasing tourism and the spread of marine invasive non-native species is threatening the unique plant and marine life around the Galapagos ... > full story -
Risk to Endangered Whales from Ships in Southern California Analyzed in New Study
March 25, 2013 — Researchers have identified areas off southern California with high numbers of whales and assessed their risk from potentially deadly collisions with commercial ship ... > full story -
Decreased Water Flow May Be Trade-Off for More Productive Forest
March 25, 2013 — As the need for carbon sequestration, biofuels, and other forest products increases, study suggests that there might be unintended consequences to enhancing ecosystems using ... > full story
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