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A chunk of ice that started to break away from the Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf in 2008

Ghost alps of Antarctica are glimpsed after 14 million years

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (18) | comments 2

Millions of years ago, rivers ran in Antarctica through craggy mountain valleys that were strangely similar to the European Alps of today, Chinese and British scientists reported on Wednesday.





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Are female mountain goats sexually conflicted over size of mate?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mountain goats are no exception to the general rule among mammals that larger males sire more and healthier offspring. But University of Alberta researcher David Coltman has found a genetic quirk that might make female mountain ...


New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy

New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta researcher has turned the site of a southern Alberta rockslide tragedy into the proving ground for new equipment meant to avert such a disaster in the future.


Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two ...


Lone llama rescued after month on Pikes Peak (AP)

Lone llama rescued after month on Pikes Peak

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 03, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(AP) -- A lone llama wandering near the summit of Pikes Peak for a month has been captured and is heading to a new home.


Transhumance helps vulture conservation

Transhumance helps vulture conservation

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Segovia and the University of León have shown for the first time the close space-time relationship between the presence of the griffon vulture and transhumant sheep ...


Researcher looking for way to minimize spread of mountain pine beetle

Researcher looking for way to minimize spread of mountain pine beetle

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Like a human being who, with a compromised immune system, is vulnerable to secondary diseases, jack pine trees ravaged by budworms may be more susceptible to an invasion of mountain pine beetles.


Personality types may contribute to genetic success of bighorn sheep

Personality types may contribute to genetic success of bighorn sheep

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- There must be times when University of Alberta researcher David Coltman wishes his study on animal personalities focused on something small, like a house cat. Coltman would classify cats that ...


Feds to reconsider protecting mountain plovers

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal officials will reconsider whether a bird that breeds in Colorado and neighboring states and summers in California should be protected.


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.


This photo, provided by the Rwanda Development Board of Tourism and Conservation, shows the silverback gorilla Titus

Gorilla King Titus dies in Rwanda

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Titus the Gorilla King, who became the world's most famous mountain gorilla after starring in Dian Fossey's "Gorillas in the Mist" and a BBC documentary, has died in Rwanda at the ripe old age of 35.



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