A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has released four more years of high-resolution imagery data, which has been added to eight years of previous data, to create the most detailed polar region ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2022
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Rose Oelkers is a tree-ring scientist with a difficult task: studying trees that don't have annual rings—or at least not very clearly defined ones.
Environment
Oct 26, 2022
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Researchers from ETH Zurich are studying how alpine vegetation is responding to a warming climate—and how some plant communities are continuing to stand firm against newcomers from lower elevations.
Plants & Animals
Oct 14, 2022
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Many plant species, probably including a third of all trees, are threatened by extinction. One of the growing threats is rapid climate change and the inability of plants to move rapidly enough, or cross barriers, to places ...
Ecology
Oct 13, 2022
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Pinyon-juniper woodlands host unique wildlife and wildlife habitat, as well as areas for hiking and outdoor recreation. They are also part of a web of healthy ecosystems that, together, help to balance water availability, ...
Ecology
Oct 6, 2022
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The Pacific nation of Tonga is made up of 170 islands, but it just welcomed its newest addition—thanks to an underwater volcano.
Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2022
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A team of researchers at Colorado State University has found that forest fires over the past several decades are having a detrimental impact on late snowpack areas in mountainous regions. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Stargazers across the globe will get a great view of Jupiter come Monday night, weather permitting.
Astronomy
Sep 23, 2022
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Since September 2019, Sweden has had a new official highest point. Researchers at Stockholm University's research station in Tarfala established that the southern peak of the Kebnekaise mountain, at 2095.6 meters, was now ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2022
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The north of Western Siberia is recording the warmest summers of the last 7,000 years. While for several millennia the temperature of the region was following a general cooling, in the 19th century there has been an abrupt ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2022
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