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Wildflower Declines In Thoreau's Concord Woods Are Due To Climate Changes
November 1, 2008 — Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists have found that different plant families near Walden Pond have borne the effects of climate change in strikingly ... > full story -
New Model Predicts A Glacier's Life
October 31, 2008 — Researchers have developed a numerical model that can re-create the state of Switzerland's Rhône Glacier as it was in 1874 and predict its evolution until the year 2100. This is the longest ... > full story -
'Living Fossil' Tree Contains Genetic Imprints Of Rain Forests Under Climate Change
October 31, 2008 — A "living fossil" tree species is helping a researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the ... > full story -
Probing Antarctic Glaciers For Clues To Past And Future Sea Level
October 30, 2008 — Scientists believe the barely observed Aurora Subglacial Basin, which lies in East Antarctica, could represent the weak underbelly of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest remaining body of ice ... > full story -
Predicting Boom And Bust Ecologies
October 30, 2008 — While scholars may be a long way from predicting the ins and outs of the economy, biologists have uncovered fundamental rules that may govern population cycles in many natural ... > full story -
Methane Gas Levels Begin To Increase Again
October 30, 2008 — The amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end a period of about a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable, according ... > full story -
Climate Change Seeps Into The Sea
October 30, 2008 — Good news has turned out to be bad. The ocean has helped slow global warming by absorbing much of the excess heat and heat-trapping carbon dioxide that has been going into the atmosphere since the ... > full story -
Global Warming Is Killing Frogs And Salamanders In Yellowstone Park, Researchers Say
October 29, 2008 — Frogs and salamanders, those amphibious bellwethers of environmental danger, are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. The predator, Stanford researchers say, is global warming. One biology ... > full story -
Amphibians' Ability To Predict Changes In Biodiversity Confirmed By New Study
October 29, 2008 — Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations in ... > full story -
Role Of Soil Microbes In Global Warming Clarified
October 29, 2008 — Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria and other microbes decompose soil organic matter, a scenario that pumps even more ... > full story -
Mapping The Boreal Forest
October 29, 2008 — How best to map 'boreal' or northern forest with space-borne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. Covering about 15% of the Earth’s land surface, boreal ... > full story -
Arctic History To Be Researched By Historians From Seven Nations
October 29, 2008 — It's one of the coldest and most remote areas on Earth, but the Arctic region has long held great strategic interest for a number of nations. Now, researchers are working to produce one of the most ... > full story
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