News tagged with cascade mountains

Scientists find microbes in lava tube living in conditions like those on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like conditions.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Any way you slice it, warming climate is affecting Cascades snowpack

There has been sharp disagreement in recent years about how much, or even whether, winter snowpack has declined in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon during the last half-century.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (25) | comments 7




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Scientists learn much about humans from birds' singing lessons

Why wasn't this intruder getting the message? The lord of the manor had warned him repeatedly to back off, with threatening gestures and loud admonitions. But the trespasser just sat there - singing.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Protection sought for rare woodpecker

(AP) -- Smokey Bear has done such a good job stomping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that's survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees is in danger of ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Space weather forecast: Sunspotty, with an increasing chance of solar storms

(Phys.org) -- The past few months have seen a spate of solar flares – bringing spectacular views of the northern lights as far south as Seattle – along with media speculation that the electrical ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nasa finds sea ice decline driving rise in Arctic air pollutants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 99 | with audio podcast

Everest climber highlights flood threat in Himalayas

(AP) -- Before Apa became a legendary Sherpa mountaineer, he was a humble Himalayan potato farmer who worked his fields in the Everest foothills until, without warning, raging floodwaters swallowed his farm.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover reason for Mt. Hood's non-explosive nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- For a half-million years, Mount Hood has towered over the landscape, but unlike some of its cousins in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains and many other volcanoes around the Pacific “Rim ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists aboard Iberian coast ocean drilling expedition report early findings

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mediterranean bottom currents and the sediment deposits they leave behind offer new insights into global climate change, the opening and closing of ocean circulation gateways and locations ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dramatic links found between climate change, elk, plants, and birds

Climate change in the form of reduced snowfall in mountains is causing powerful and cascading shifts in mountainous plant and bird communities through the increased ability of elk to stay at high elevations over winter and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wandering wolf inspires hope and dread

(AP) -- A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love, tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California, while his alpha male sire and a sibling ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Climate change affects ants and biodiversity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some people may consider them pests, but ants are key to many plants’ survival.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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