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Scientists warn of climate catastrophe
Jun 18, 2009 |
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The world faces a growing risk of "abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts" as fallout from global warming hits faster than expected, according to research by international scientists released Thursday.
Study predicts when invasive species can travel more readily by air
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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Global airlines be forewarned: June 2010 could be a busy month for invasive plants, insects and animals seeking free rides to distant lands.
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Ice cores map dynamics of sudden climate changes
Jun 19, 2008 |
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New, extremely detailed data from investigations of ice cores from Greenland show that the climate shifted very suddenly and changed fundamentally during quite few years when the ice age ended. Researchers ...
Abrupt climate change more common than believed
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Mar 30, 2007 |
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It came on quickly and then lasted nearly two decades, eventually killing more than one million people and affecting 50 million more. All of this makes the Sahel drought, which first struck West Africa in the late 1960s, ...
Changes in net flow of ocean heat correlate with past climate anomalies
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Physicists at the University of Rochester have combed through data from satellites and ocean buoys and found evidence that in the last 50 years, the net flow of heat into and out of the oceans has changed ...
Strong regional climatic fluctuations in the tropics
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Dec 02, 2009 |
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Climatic fluctuations close to the equator show a different pattern to climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic. In the tropics distinct 11500 year fluctuations between wet and dry periods can be clearly identified which ...
UK University to probe integrity of climate data
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.
Are the Alps growing or shrinking?
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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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 ...
Abrupt global warming could shift monsoon patterns, hurt agriculture
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2009 |
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At times in the distant past, an abrupt change in climate has been associated with a shift of seasonal monsoons to the south, a new study concludes, causing more rain to fall over the oceans than in the Earth's tropical regions, ...
Has the mystery of the Antarctic ice sheet been solved?
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Feb 28, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales travelled to Africa to find new evidence of climate change which helps explain some of the mystery ...
Life on the edge: To disperse, or become extinct?
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Jun 23, 2008 |
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Plants existing at the edges of their natural habitats may enhance survival of the species during global warming, says Queen's prof The hardiest plants and those most likely to survive the climatic shifts bro ...
Chemists create protein structure database
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Any chemist with access to the Internet can now use a powerful tool to help them accurately identify the structure of a protein, thanks to recently published work led by Harold A. Scheraga, Cornell's Todd ...
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