News tagged with moderate climate
NASA releases visual tour of Earth's fires
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002. The visualizations show fire observations made by the MODerate ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Colourful boundary trespassers: burrowing parrots crossed the Andes 120,000 years ago
The Andes of southern South America form a hostile mountain range with glaciers, salty deserts and meagre high elevation steppes. Birds from more moderate climate zones cross this mountain range only rarely. ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Drought drives decade-long decline in plant growth
Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2010 |
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U.S. energy demand on the decline due to population migration
(PhysOrg.com) -- As Congress and the White House explore ways to encourage Americans to conserve energy, a new study by the University of Michigan shows that the average individual energy demand for heating and cooling has ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 08, 2009 |
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