News tagged with older forests
Sorry no news is found ... Your search criteria may have been too narrow. You can quickly re-sort the news in different ways by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page.
Search results for older forests
Painted ancient Maya numbers reflect calendar reaching well beyond 2012 (w/ Video)
A vast city built by the ancient Maya and discovered nearly a century ago is finally starting to yield its secrets.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 10, 2012 |
4.5 / 5 (16) |
15
|
Herds of large treetop marsupials
Sheep-sized ancient relatives of modern-day wombats lived in Australias treetops 15 million years ago, according to new research led by Dr Karen Black from the University of New South Wales.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 03, 2012 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
|
Green groups say Indonesia deforestation ban 'weak'
A coalition of green groups in Indonesia on Thursday criticised a moratorium on deforestation as "weak", saying the year-long ban still excludes large tracts of the country's carbon-rich forests.
May 03, 2012 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Testosterone low, but responsive to competition, in Amazonian tribe
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a rough life for the Tsimane, an isolated indigenous group in Bolivia. They make a living by hunting and foraging in forests, fishing in streams and clearing land by hand to grow crops. ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
0
|
D.C. cherry trees: Blooms won't wait in warming world, research finds
Cherry trees in full bloom in our nation's capital as well as the festival surrounding that event could be as much as four weeks earlier by 2080 depending on how much warming occurs.
Mar 20, 2012 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
Study quantifies effect of soot on snow and ice, supporting previous climate findings
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), published in Nature Climate Change, has quantitatively demonstrated that black carbonalso known ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2012 |
4 / 5 (4) |
1
|
Hot-spring fossils preserve complete Jurassic ecosystem
Scientists are uncovering a beautifully-preserved ecosystem from around a Jurassic hot spring, helping fill a gap in the fossil record of more than 300 million years.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 02, 2012 |
5 / 5 (7) |
0
|
Big trees face 'dire future'
Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future according to James Cook Universitys Distinguished Professor William Laurance.
Feb 09, 2012 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Harnessing plasmonics, engineers weld nanowires with light
At the nano level, researchers at Stanford have discovered a new way to weld together meshes of tiny wires. Their work could lead to exciting new electronics and solar applications. To succeed, they called ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
4.8 / 5 (11) |
1
|
Teens migrating to Twitter -- sometimes for privacy
(AP) -- Teens don't tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool. That's been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.
Jan 29, 2012 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
1
List of search results for older forests