News tagged with rocky mountains
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Mystery of monarch migration takes new turn
During the fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies living in eastern North America fly up to 1,500 miles to the volcanic forests of Mexico to spend the winter, while monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains fly to the ...
May 31, 2012 |
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New research discovers metabolic adaptation to high altitudes
When mammals are cold, they can employ physical changes to stay warm -- such as intense shivering. Like any form of aerobic exercise, though, "shivering thermogenesis" is especially challenging at high altitudes ...
May 17, 2012 |
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Flow in Earth's mantle moves mountains: study
If tectonic plate collisions cause volcanic eruptions, as every fifth grader knows, why do some volcanoes erupt far from a plate boundary?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Ancient Colorado river flowed backwards
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists have found evidence that some 55 million years ago a river as big as the modern Colorado flowed through Arizona into Utah in the opposite direction from the present-day river. Writing in the October ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 04, 2010 |
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A willingness to be bullied may be inherited
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the behavior of marmots suggests that a willingness to accept some extent of bullying, rather than shying away from interactions that could lead to conflict, may be inherited.
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Colorado mountain hail may disappear in a warmer future: study
Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado's Rocky Mountains by 2070, according to a new modeling study by scientists from NOAA and several other institutions.
Jan 08, 2012 |
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New insights on the origin of the Rocky Mountains
(PhysOrg.com) -- The formation of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado has always puzzled scientists. Some 600 miles inland and far removed from the nearest tectonic plate, the only comparable inland mountain range ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 28, 2011 |
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In the wake of the wind
On the Front Range within the Rocky Mountains, prevailing winds sweep eastward over the mountains smack into the National Wind Technology Center.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Nitrogen from humans pollutes remote lakes for more than a century
Nitrogen derived from human activities has polluted lakes throughout the Northern Hemisphere for more than a century and the fingerprint of these changes is evident even in remote lakes located thousands of ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Death in the bat caves: Experts call for action against fast-moving disease
A team of wildlife experts led by UC Davis called today for a national fight against a new fungus that has killed more than 1 million bats in the eastern United States and is spreading fast throughout North ...
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Snowpack declines in Rockies unusual compared to past
(PhysOrg.com) -- The researchers evaluated the recent declines using snowpack reconstructions from 66 tree-ring chronologies, looking back 500 to more than 1,000 years.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 09, 2011 |
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500 million year old fossils discovered on new site
During an expedition into the Canadian Rocky Mountains in 2008, a Canadian-led team including Swedish researchers from Uppsala University found a new site with exceptionally preserved fossils. The site and ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 17, 2010 |
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2 more glaciers gone from Glacier National Park
(AP) -- Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, a government researcher said Wednesday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 07, 2010 |
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Ancient Americans took cold snap in their stride
Paleoindian groups* occupied North America throughout the Younger Dryas interval, which saw a rapid return to glacial conditions approximately 11,000 years ago. Until now, it has been assumed that cooling temperatures and ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Researcher finds 10,000 year-old hunting weapon in melting ice patch (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- To the untrained eye, University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate Craig Lee's recent discovery of a 10,000-year-old wooden hunting weapon might look like a small branch that blew ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 29, 2010 |
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