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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 ...





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Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies

Biology /

created Aug 13, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Expanding forests in the Canadian Rocky Mountains are slowly isolating groups of alpine butterflies from each other, which may lead to the extinction of the colourful insects in some areas, says a new study from the University ...


UAB professor's book promises solution for teaching evolution without conflict

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor Lee Meadows, Ph.D., is author of a new book that claims it's possible to teach evolution without offending students who have strong religious convictions against ...


FDA issues contaminated cheese warning

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 31, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a consumer warning and recall of possibly contaminated Grassy Meadows Dairy Co. cheeses.


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.


International experts collect alpine fungi in Beartooth Mountains of Montana

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created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Armed guards once kept polar bears away while Cathy Cripps collected mushrooms and fungi on the island of Svalbard between Norway and the North Pole. Another time, Cripps encountered musk-oxen while gathering fungi in Greenland.


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.


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.


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.


Ski Faster with Camera-less Fusion Motion Capture

Technology / Other

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Professional skiers can now learn how to ski faster with the aid of a new system used to capture 3D motion of athletic movements – Fusion Motion Capture (FMC). Featured in Wiley-Blackwell’s journal, Sports Technology, this i ...


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New findings on immune system in amphibians

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 19, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes produce proteins that are crucial in fighting pathogen assault. Researchers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental ...



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