News tagged with continental climates
Climate change enhances grassland productivity
Jan 26, 2009 |
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More frequent freeze-thaw cycles in winter can increase biomass production according to the results of a recent study conducted by the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Bayreuth ...
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U.S. energy demand on the decline due to population migration
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Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As Congress and the White House explore ways to encourage Americans to conserve energy, a new study by the University of Michigan shows that the average individual energy demand for heating and cooling has ...
From Canada to the Caribbean: Tree leaves control their own temperature
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Jun 11, 2008 |
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The temperature inside a healthy, photosynthesizing tree leaf is affected less by outside environmental temperature than originally believed, according to new research from biologists at the University of Pennsylvania.
North America's wind patterns shifted significantly in the past 30,000 years
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Jan 23, 2007 |
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Dartmouth researchers have learned that the prevailing winds in the mid latitudes of North America, which now blow from the west, once blew from the east. They reached this conclusion by analyzing 14,000- to ...
Impact of sea-level rise on atmospheric CO2 concentrations
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise in sea level since the last ice age has prevented us from feeling the full impact of man-made global warming. The sea level rise has resulted in more harmful greenhouse gases being absorbed by the ...
Study predicts effect of global warming on spring flowers
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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An international study involving Monash University mathematician Dr Malcolm Clark has been used to demonstrate the impact of global warming and to predict the effect further warming will have on plant life.
Temperatures of sea water fringing South Pole were tropical 50 million years ago
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The temperature difference between equatorial and polar sea waters was minimal during the extremely warm 'Greenhouse world' 60 to 50 million years ago. This is the main conclusion drawn by ...
Most Alaskan glaciers retreating, thinning, and stagnating
Oct 06, 2008 |
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Most glaciers in every mountain range and island group in Alaska are experiencing significant retreat, thinning or stagnation, especially glaciers at lower elevations, according to a new book published by the U.S. Geological ...
New sources of biofuel to take pressure off traditional crops
Sep 10, 2009 |
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"Salt-loving algae could be the key to the successful development of biofuels as well as being an efficient means of recycling atmospheric carbon dioxide", Professor John Cushman of the University of Nevada told the Society ...
A warming climate can support glacial ice
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Jan 10, 2008 |
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New research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events. The study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...
Ozone depletes oil seed rape productivity
Jun 29, 2009 |
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With rising ozone levels scientists have found that high ozone conditions cause a 30 percent decrease in yield and an increase in the concentration of a group of compounds with toxic effects to livestock, but anticarcinogenic ...
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