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New research provides insights into potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new paper just published in Global Change Biology examines the potential of a REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) mechanism to provoke ecological damage and/or promote ecological cobenefits. Such a ...


Researchers studying link between climate change and cattle nutritional stress

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Kansas State University's Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology, and KC Olson, associate professor in animal sciences and industry, have teamed up with some other scientists from across the ...


Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store

Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula. This ...


Tropical regions to be hardest hit by fisheries shifts caused by climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Major shifts in fisheries distribution due to climate change will affect food security in tropical regions most adversely, according to a study led by the Sea Around Us Project at The University of British Columbia.


Spring cold snap helps with stream ecosystem research

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A rare April freeze in 2007 provided researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory with further evidence that climate change could have negative effects on stream and forest ecosystems.


First ever worldwide census of caribou and reindeer reveals a dramatic decline

First ever worldwide census of caribou and reindeer reveals a dramatic decline

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Caribou and reindeer numbers worldwide have plunged almost 60 per cent in the last three decades.


Climate change driving Michigan mammals north

Climate change driving Michigan mammals north

Biology / Ecology

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some Michigan mammal species are rapidly expanding their ranges northward, apparently in response to climate change, a new study shows. In the process, these historically southern species ...


Birds Move North with Climate Change

Biology /

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) have documented that a variety of North American bird species are extending their breeding ranges to the north, adding to concerns about climate ...