Climate change is driving tree species towards colder and wetter regions, study shows
Climate change is likely to drive tree species towards colder and wetter regions of their geographical distribution, a new study has shown.
Climate change is likely to drive tree species towards colder and wetter regions of their geographical distribution, a new study has shown.
Plants & Animals
Jul 3, 2024
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The bottom of the ocean is not hospitable. There is no light; the temperature is freezing cold; and the pressure of all the water above will literally crush you. The animals that live at this depth have developed biophysical ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2024
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The climate modeling community has been particularly vexed by the glacial/interglacial cycles of the past three million years, when the Northern Hemisphere oscillated between times with and without large ice sheets.
Earth Sciences
Jun 25, 2024
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Wildfires are the new "polar bear," routinely used by the media to epitomize the climate crisis and the threat of major natural hazards. This is despite most fire on Earth being harmless, even ecologically beneficial.
Environment
Jun 25, 2024
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The official start of summer is around the corner. Parts of the West have already experienced triple-digit heat and wildfires.
Planetary Sciences
Jun 20, 2024
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Solstices mark the changing of seasons, occur twice a year, and feature the year's shortest and longest daylight hours—depending on your hemisphere. These extremes in the length of day and night make solstice days more ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 18, 2024
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There's a lot of science news in seven days, so just because a new study isn't cited here on Saturday morning doesn't mean it didn't happen. A lot more has happened. But also, check out these four stories:
Climate changes, but not always for the same reason. Today's rapid climate change is due entirely to man. The Holocene—the last 12,000 years—has been seen as having a stable climate, with a lack of chaos that allowed ...
Woolly mammoths are evocative of a bygone era, when Earth was gripped within an Ice Age. Current knowledge places early mammoth ancestors in the Pliocene (2.58–5.33 million years ago, Ma) before their populations expanded ...
Many more people around the world than normal were recently able to see the northern and southern lights overhead with the naked eye. This unusual event was triggered by a very strong solar storm, which affected the movement ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 8, 2024
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