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Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies

Biology /

created Aug 13, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Expanding forests in the Canadian Rocky Mountains are slowly isolating groups of alpine butterflies from each other, which may lead to the extinction of the colourful insects in some areas, says a new study from the University ...


Desert dust alters ecology of Colorado alpine meadows

Desert Dust Alters Ecology of Colorado Alpine Meadows

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (50) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Accelerated snowmelt--precipitated by desert dust blowing into the mountains--changes how alpine plants respond to seasonal climate cues that regulate their life cycles, according to results ...


UAB professor's book promises solution for teaching evolution without conflict

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor Lee Meadows, Ph.D., is author of a new book that claims it's possible to teach evolution without offending students who have strong religious convictions against ...


Mountain Gorillas Pose No AIDS Threat, Researchers Say

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mountain gorillas do not pose an AIDS threat to humans, according to researchers at the UC Davis Mountain Gorilla One Health Program.


Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | 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 ...


Ancient hunting site may rest under Lake Huron

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Deep beneath Lake Huron, signs of the Great Lakes' first human settlers are emerging.


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 ...



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