News tagged with temperature zone
Horticulturist explains new USDA plant hardiness map
The recently released USDA Plant Zone Hardiness Map, updating the previous 26-year-old zone map, reflects rising mean temperatures throughout the country, including Maine, where gardeners must carefully consider possible ...
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Brisbane climate change study warns of many years of life lost
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), in collaboration with CSIRO, has conducted a world-first study into the potential impact climate change will have on 'years of life lost' in Brisbane.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Kepler finds first earth-size planets beyond our solar system
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Tidal locking could render habitable planets inhospitable
Tidally-locked planets - planets with one side perpetually facing their star while the other remains shrouded in darkness - tend to be warmer on one side than the other. The presence of an atmosphere can help ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Habitable planets and white dwarfs
(PhysOrg.com) -- The search for habitable planets similar to Earth has routinely focused around active nuclear burning stars. However, in a recently published paper by Eric Agol from the University of Washington, ...
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Assumptions about exo-oceans
Some estimates indicate that 25% of Sun-like stars have Earth-like planets. A new study now shows that these planets are almost certain to have oceans if they are located in the right temperature zone around ...
Mar 04, 2011 |
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First rocky planet discovered: NASA spots tiny Earth-like planet, too hot for life
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has spotted a tiny, rocky planet about the size of Earth doing a speedy orbit of a star outside our solar system, but its scorching temperatures are too hot for life, the space agency ...
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Growing hypoxic zones reduce habitat for billfish and tuna
Billfish and tuna, important commercial and recreational fish species, may be more vulnerable to fishing pressure because of shrinking habitat, according to a new study published by scientists from NOAA, The ...
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Signs of reversal of Arctic cooling in some areas
Parts of the Arctic have cooled clearly over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990 also there. This is the finding of a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Odds for Life Better in Photosynthesis Zones
By calculating where photosynthesis might be possible around the galaxy, scientists are developing a new way to figure out where Earth-like planets with life might be located.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Climate change puts ecosystems on the run, researchers say
(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is causing habitats to move across the landscape. Can the creatures living there keep up? If they can't, some species may die out, researchers say.
Dec 27, 2009 |
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Climate variability impacts the deep sea
Deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60% of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming warn scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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'Weedy' Bird Species May Win as Temperatures Rise
Climate change is altering North American winter bird communities in ways that models currently favored by ecologists fail to predict.
Jul 19, 2009 |
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Tropical zone expanding due to climate change: study
Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2009 |
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