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High nitrate concentrations in U.S. Rockies' high elevation lakes caused by melting glaciers

Melting glaciers in the American West are releasing chemicals that cause ecosystem changes in alpine lakes, including large quantities of nitrogen that reduces biodiversity, according to an international research team led ...

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created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Toxic legacy seeps from melting Alpine glaciers: study

Swiss researchers have found that Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice for decades.

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created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0




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CU research shows warming climate threatens ecology at mountain research site west of Boulder

A series of papers published this month on ecological changes at 26 global research sites -- including one administered by the University of Colorado Boulder in the high mountains west of the city -- indicates ...

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created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 10

Study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annually

Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Sediments from the Enol lake reveal more than 13,500 years of environmental history

A team of Spanish researchers have used different geological samples, extracted from the Enol lake in Asturias, to show that the Holocene, a period that started 11,600 years ago, did not have a climate as ...

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

New study may answer questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age

A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages ...

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Nitrogen from humans pollutes remote lakes for more than a century

Nitrogen derived from human activities has polluted lakes throughout the Northern Hemisphere for more than a century and the fingerprint of these changes is evident even in remote lakes located thousands of ...

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains enigma unraveled in East Antarctica

The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet – a puzzle mystifying scientists since their first discovery in 1958 – is finally solved. The remarkably ...

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created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Protecting the Valais by studying a river that runs through it

EPFL's Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory is working with Crealp (Center for Research on Alpine Environments) in Sion to model sediment deposits carried by the Naviscence River. They are simulating possible scenarios for ...

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Conservation of genetic structure in lake salmonids affected by hydropower regulation, release of fish and hybrids

The negative effects of releasing fish and the possible fragmentation of natural fish stocks in connection with hydropower regulations may be fewer than at first feared.

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created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fulbright scholar takes ecological theory to Andean heights

For 2011 Fulbright awardee James Elser, Argentina's soaring, glacier-laden peaks, ancient cultures, and criollo horses offer a spectacular backdrop for this region's biggest draw: access to the "last unpolluted ...

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created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Phosphate sorption characteristics of European alpine soils

Soil chemistry plays an important role in the composition of surface waters. In areas with limited human activities, properties of catchment soils directly relate to the exported nutrients to surface waters. Phosphate sorption ...

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