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Alpine lakes beginning to show effects of climate change

Alpine lakes beginning to show effects of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (12) | comments 7

A recent study forecasts that increased climatic variability poses serious consequence for both the biodiversity and ecosystem function of high-elevation lakes.





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Toxic legacy seeps from melting Alpine glaciers: study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Swiss researchers have found that Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice for decades.


Airborne nitrogen shifts aquatic nutrient limitation in pristine lakes

Airborne nitrogen shifts aquatic nutrient limitation in pristine lakes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and wide-spread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater that previously recognized and even extends to remote alpine lakes, ...


Study assesses impact of fish stocking on aquatic insects

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created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The impact fish stocking has on aquatic insects in mountain lakes can be rapidly reversed by removing non-native trout, according to a study completed by U.S. Forest Service and University of California, Davis, scientists.


Real-Time Feedback System for Alpine Skiers Help Improve Performance

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers have developed an effective real-time performance management and feedback system for alpine ski racers that allow skiers to better understand their carved turning skills and improve their performance.


Glacial melting may release pollutants in the environment

Glacial melting may release pollutants in the environment

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Those pristine-looking Alpine glaciers now melting as global warming sets in may explain the mysterious increase in persistent organic pollutants in sediment from certain lakes since the 1990s, despite decreased ...


Study links ecosystem changes in temperate lakes to climate warming

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created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Unparalleled warming over the last few decades has triggered widespread ecosystem changes in many temperate North American and Western European lakes, say researchers at Queen's University and the Ontario Ministry of the ...


Researchers study 'fundamental, amazing change' in Great Lakes

Researchers study 'fundamental, amazing change' in Great Lakes (w/ Video)

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created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Great Lakes are in the midst of a remarkable ecological transformation, driven largely by the blitzkrieg advance of two closely related species of non-native mussels.


This undated picture released by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich shows the new Monte Rosa refuge

Swiss to inaugurate high-tech, green mountain hut

Technology / Energy

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Switzerland will inaugurate on Saturday a new mountain refuge in the Alps that looks more like a futuristic space station than the no-frills stonewall huts that alpinists are more familiar with.


Desert dust alters ecology of Colorado alpine meadows

Desert Dust Alters Ecology of Colorado Alpine Meadows

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (50) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Accelerated snowmelt--precipitated by desert dust blowing into the mountains--changes how alpine plants respond to seasonal climate cues that regulate their life cycles, according to results ...


US, Canada to update Great Lakes water agreement (AP)

US, Canada to update Great Lakes water agreement

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created Jun 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The United States and Canada say they will update a key agreement to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species, climate change and other established and emerging threats to the world's biggest ...



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