http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The Alps are growing just as quickly in height, as they are shrinking. This paradoxical result could be proven by a group of German and Swiss geoscientists. Due to glaciers and rivers about exactly the same amount of material is eroded from the Alp slopes as is regenerated from the deep Earth's crust. The climatic cycles of the glacial period in Europe over the past 2.5 million years have accelerated this erosion process. In the latest volume of the science magazine "Tectonophysics" ( No. 474, S.236-249) the scientists prove that today's uplifting of the Alps is driven by these strong climatic variations. http://www.physorg.com/news176643920.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:01 EST news176643920 A team of scientists has analyzed 29 esparto fields from Guadalajara to Murcia and has concluded that perennial vegetation cover is an efficient early warning system against desertification in these ecosystems. The study has been published in the Ecology magazine. http://www.physorg.com/news171275970.html Biology Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:40:09 EST news171275970 The Baltic Sea winter climate has changed more in the last 500 years than previously thought. Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that our part of the world has experienced periods of both milder and colder winters, and the transitions between these climate types seem to have been abrupt. http://www.physorg.com/news169458454.html Space & Earth Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:10:01 EST news169458454 Global warming is mainly caused by greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities; however, current climatic variations may be affected `around 15% or 20%` by solar activity, according to the researcher Manuel Vázquez from the Canary Islands` Astrophysics Institute (IAC) at the Sun and Climate Change conference, organised as part of the El Escorial summer courses by Madrid's Complutense University. http://www.physorg.com/news135581249.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:27:29 EST news135581249