News tagged with snow fences
'SnowMan' Software Helps Keep Snow Drifts Off the Road
(PhysOrg.com) -- Snow that blows and drifts across roadways has long troubled road maintenance crews and commuters alike, creating treacherous driving conditions and requiring additional maintenance resources ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Dramatic links found between climate change, elk, plants, and birds
Climate change in the form of reduced snowfall in mountains is causing powerful and cascading shifts in mountainous plant and bird communities through the increased ability of elk to stay at high elevations over winter and ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Arctic snow harbors deadly assassin
Heavy and prolonged snowfall can bring about unexpected conditions that encourage fungal growth, leading to the death of plants in the Arctic, according to experts.
Jun 19, 2011 |
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Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America
Lodgepole pine, a hardy tree species that can thrive in cold temperatures and plays a key role in many western ecosystems, is already shrinking in range as a result of climate change and may almost ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Vanderbilt physicians urge caution as children go sledding
(PhysOrg.com) -- As schools throughout the area remain closed today, Vanderbilt physicians urge caution as children go sledding.
Jan 11, 2011 |
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One scientist's hobby: recreating the ice age
(AP) -- Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one ...
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Nov 28, 2010 |
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Pandas leave DC, Atlanta for new homes in China
(AP) -- The time has come for two American-born giant pandas to go home to their species' native land.
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Experts: Cold snap doesn't disprove global warming
(AP) -- Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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New tracking approach will help protect polar bears
A new approach to tracking polar bears, developed by Queen's University researchers, will shed more light on the potentially endangered Arctic animal and help boost the economy of Canada's north.
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Nature Conservancy buys Calif. ranchland in hopes of restoring salmon run
The Nature Conservancy has bought ranchland near Mount Shasta to repair a cow-ravaged tributary of Shasta River, historically one of the most productive salmon streams in California.
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Study of disease risk suggests ways to avoid slaughter of Yellowstone bison
Last winter, government agencies killed one third of Yellowstone National Park's bison herd due to concerns about the possible spread of a livestock disease to cattle that graze in areas around the park. Such drastic measures ...
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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