News tagged with vegetation shifts

Climate change forces major vegetation shifts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vegetation around the world is on the move, and climate change is the culprit, according to a new analysis of global vegetation shifts led by a University of California, Berkeley, ecologist ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 04, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 8




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Foxconn shows off changes at factory campus

The global controversy surrounding the treatment of assembly-line workers who manufacture iPhones and iPads - and just about every other consumer device - is triggering an unprecedented effort by Apple Inc. and its chief ...

Technology / Business

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

First forecast calls for mild Amazon fire season in 2012

Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers.

Space & Earth / Environment

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Geologists map prehistoric climate changes in Canada's Yukon Territory

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have joined an international group of scientists to study past climate changes in the Arctic. Comprising geologists from Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science, the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

European mountain plant population shows delayed response to climate change

A modeling study from the European Alps suggests that population declines to be observed during the upcoming decades will probably underestimate the long-term effects of recent climate warming on mountain plants. A European ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Long-term monitoring shows 60 percent reduction in acidity of Delaware rain

Several decades ago, precipitation in Delaware was among the most acidic in the country. Pollutants in the air reacted with rainwater to sprinkle sulfuric, nitric and carbonic acids onto the ground below, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Scientists core into California's Clear Lake to explore past climate change

(Phys.org) -- University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's ...

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created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Climate right for Asian mosquito to spread in N. Europe

The climate in northwestern Europe and the Balkans is becoming suitable for the Asian tiger mosquito, a disease-spreading invasive species, scientists said on Wednesday.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift

The Tibetan Plateau is the youngest and highest plateau on Earth, and its elevation reaches one-third of the height of the troposphere, with profound dynamic and thermal effects on atmospheric circulation ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Nasa sees fields of green spring up in Saudi Arabia

(PhysOrg.com) -- Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Bird ranges shift north, but not as fast as climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- As warmer winter temperatures become more common, one way for some animals to adjust is to shift their ranges northward. But a new study of 59 North American bird species indicates that doing ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4


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