News tagged with climate zones
'Weedy' bird species may win as temperatures rise
Climate change is altering North American winter bird communities in ways that models currently favored by ecologists fail to predict.
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Mathematics and climate change: Gaining insights into the nature of sea ice
In 1994, University of Utah mathematician Ken Golden went to the Eastern Weddell Sea for the Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment. The sea's surface is normally covered with sea ice, the complex composite material that results ...
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Climate change may be stoking stronger winds, altered oceans
The specter of an ocean floor littered with dead shellfish, rock fish, sea stars and other marine life off the Oregon coast spurred Mark Snyder, a climate change expert, to investigate whether California's coast faced a similar ...
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Dramatic expansion of dead zones in the oceans
Unchecked global warming would leave ocean dwellers gasping for breath. Dead zones are low-oxygen areas in the ocean where higher life forms such as fish, crabs and clams are not able to live. In shallow coastal regions, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2009 |
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