Potato may help feed Ethiopia in era of climate change
'Tis the season—for plasma changes at Saturn
(Phys.org) —A University of Iowa undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify ...
May 03, 2013
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Light switches brain signaling: Longer days bring 'winter blues' for rats
Most of us are familiar with the "winter blues," the depression-like symptoms known as "seasonal affective disorder," or SAD, that occurs when the shorter days of winter limit our exposure to natural light ...
Apr 25, 2013
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Climate change disrupts songbird's timing without impacting population size (yet)
Survey explores how gardeners are adapting to a changing climate
As gardeners and farmers across Britain survey the frost damage and delayed growth of their plants this Easter, scientists at the University of Reading are asking gardeners to participate in a new survey ...
Mar 28, 2013
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Climate change likely to worsen threat of diarrheal disease in Botswana, arid African countries
In a National Science Foundation funded study, Kathleen Alexander, an associate professor of wildlife at Virginia Tech, found that climate drives a large part of diarrheal disease and increases the threat ...
Mar 26, 2013
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Emus get GPS treatment
Could global warming change tornado season, too?
With the planet heating up, many scientists seem fairly certain some weather elements like hurricanes and droughts will worsen. But tornadoes have them stumped.
Mar 15, 2013
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Saturn to shed its spooky spokes for summer
As Saturn steadily moves along its 29.7-year-long orbit toward summertime in its northern hemisphere NASA's Cassini spacecraft is along for the ride, giving astronomers a front-row seat to seasonal changes ...
Mar 13, 2013
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Amplified greenhouse effect shaping North into South
An international team of 21 authors from 17 institutions in seven countries has just published a study in the journal Nature Climate Change showing that, as the cover of snow and ice in the northern latitu ...
Mar 10, 2013
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Can simple measures of labile soil organic matter predict corn performance?
As climate warms, bark beetles march on high-elevation forests
Minnesota's iconic moose population is falling
Pics, shoots and leaves: Ecologists turn digital cameras into climate change tools
As digital cameras become better and cheaper, ecologists are turning these ubiquitous consumer devices into scientific tools to study how forests are responding to climate change. And, they say, digital cameras could be a ...
Dec 19, 2012
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Report finds climate change already having major effects on ecosystems, species
(Phys.org)—Plant and animal species are shifting their geographic ranges and the timing of their life events – such as flowering, laying eggs or migrating – at faster rates than researchers documented ...
Dec 19, 2012
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