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1 moose, 2 moose: Scientist seeks correction in number of species
Jun 13, 2009 |
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It is a misinterpretation of the application of the bedrock of scientific naming with regard to the number of moose species that Kris Hundertmark, a University of Alaska Fairbanks wildlife geneticist at the Institute of Arctic ...
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Scientists expand understanding of how river carbon impacts the Arctic Ocean
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Feb 12, 2008 |
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Arctic rivers transport huge quantities of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to the Arctic Ocean. The prevailing paradigm regarding DOC in arctic rivers is that it is largely refractory, making it of little significance for ...
Understanding ocean climate
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how ...
Arctic spring comes weeks earlier than a decade ago
Jun 18, 2007 |
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In the Earth’s cold and icy far north, the harsh winters are giving way to spring weeks earlier than they did just a decade ago, researchers have reported in the June 19th issue of Current Biology. The finding in the Arctic ...
Study links ecosystem changes in temperate lakes to climate warming
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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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 ...
First ever worldwide census of caribou and reindeer reveals a dramatic decline
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Caribou and reindeer numbers worldwide have plunged almost 60 per cent in the last three decades.
International experts collect alpine fungi in Beartooth Mountains of Montana
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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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.
The Arctic And Global Warming
Feb 28, 2006 |
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A warmer Arctic Ocean may mean less food for the birds, fish, and baleen whales and be a significant detriment to that fragile and interconnected polar ecosystem, and that doesn't bode well for other ocean ecosystems in the ...
Arctic lake sediments show warming, unique ecological changes in recent decades
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate ...
Life Underground Critical to Earth's Ecosystems
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "I wonder if I shall fall right through the Earth!" mused Alice-in-Wonderland as she tumbled down the rabbit-hole." How funny it'll seem to come out among people that walk with their heads ...
Goose eggs may help polar bears weather climate change
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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As polar bears adapt to a warming Arctic—a frozen seascape that cleaves earlier each spring—they may find relief in an unlikely source: snow goose eggs. New calculations show that changes in the timing of ...
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