Mountain formation stimulates increased biodiversity. This is what Carina Hoorn of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and colleagues from the Senckenberg (Germany) and Gothenburg Botanical Garden (Sweden) propose in a Correspondence to the ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 28, 2013 not rated yet 0

An increase in temperatures due to climate change could mean that the Andorran ski resorts have a shorter season in the future, especially in lower areas. A study undertaken by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 23, 2013 not rated yet 1

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) researchers together with researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), have developed a special treatment for cotton fabric that allows the cotton ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Jan 21, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 0

An army of rice-grain-sized beetles, attracted by warming weather, has moved into Canada's western forests, where its tree massacre is causing the mercury to rise yet further, a study said Sunday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 25, 2012 4.6 / 5 (9) 35

Climate changes mean that species are disappearing from European mountain regions. This is shown by new research involving biologists from the University of Gothenburg, the results of which are now being publishing ...

Biology - Ecology

May 08, 2012 4.2 / 5 (5) 1

If you walk into a cloud at the top of a mountain with a cup to slake your thirst, it might take a while for your cup to fill. The tiny, barely-there droplets are difficult to see, and for scientists they, ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 24, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0

A pan-European study published in Science shows that mountain plants across the continent are moving to higher altitudes. This often results in raised species numbers on mountain tops, when colonizers from l ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 19, 2012 2.9 / 5 (17) 93 |

A university in Russia's Chechnya claimed on Tuesday to have found an unprecedented stash of giant fossilised dinosaur eggs in a remote mountainous area of the North Caucasus region.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 17, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since global climate has been measured, and while localized studies have shown evidence of changes in mountain plant communities that reflect this warming trend, ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 08, 2012 4.4 / 5 (7) 2

A 2,300-year climate record University of Pittsburgh researchers recovered from an Andes Mountains lake reveals that as temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rise, the planet's densely populated tropical ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 11, 2011 4.9 / 5 (8) 15 |

Local extinction rates of American pikas have increased nearly five-fold in the last 10 years, and the rate at which the climate-sensitive species is moving up mountain slopes has increased 11-fold, since the 20th century, ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 20, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

Only a few invasive plant species succeed in mountain regions. A team including ETH ecologists have now explained, with a rule that applies all over the world, why some exotics are more successful than others ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 09, 2011 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- Nearly one-third of the natural gas yet to be discovered in the world is north of the Arctic Circle and most of it is in Russian territory, according to a new analysis led by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 29, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 1