A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study that ties forest "greenness" in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack indicates mid-elevation mountain ecosystems are most sensitive ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 09, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 0 |

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

From the highest peak in the continental United States, Mt. Whitney at 14,000 feet in elevation, to the 10,000-foot-peaks near Lake Tahoe, scientific evidence from the University of Nevada, Reno shows the entire Sierra Nevada ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 03, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 1