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New study reveals unexpected relationship between climate warming and advancing treelines
Aug 13, 2009 |
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A new study reveals that treelines are not responding to climate warming as expected. The research, the first global quantitative assessment of the relationship between climate warming and treeline advance, is published in ...
Climate change means bigger medical, council and property bills
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Climate change concerns like melting icecaps, increased desertification, loss of coral reefs and the extinction of species like polar bears can seem a distant concern in our everyday lives. Little attention, however, has ...
Plants take a hike as temperatures rise
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Plants are flowering at higher elevations in Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains as summer temperatures rise, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
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U.N. meteorologist predicts cooler summer
Apr 04, 2008 |
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A U.N. meteorologist says the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific will likely mean slightly lower temperatures across the world this year.
Earth's seasons now arrive 2 days earlier, researchers report
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not only has the average global temperature increased in the past 50 years, but the hottest day of the year has shifted nearly two days earlier, according to a new study by scientists from the University ...
Dog bites a particular threat to young children, especially as temperatures rise
Mar 01, 2009 |
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Young children are especially vulnerable to severe dog bites in the head and neck areas, and there is a correlation between cases of dog bites and rising temperatures, according to new research published in the March 2009 ...
Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.
The mysterious glaciers that grew when Asia heated up
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Long ago a group of Himalayan glaciers grew by several kilometers even while Central Asia's climate warmed up to six degrees Celsius. BYU professor Summer Rupper's analysis attributes much of the glacial growth to increased ...
Those dog days of August: 3 times the heat by 2050?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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If you are wilting under the summer heat, consider this: your child may one day think of summer 2009 as "back in the cool old days." To illustrate expected increases in extreme summer heat, scientists at ...
Forecasters say El Nino may be developing
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Jun 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A new El Nino could be approaching. Sea-surface temperatures have been warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean, suggesting the potential for the development of the El Nino climate phenomenon this summer, according ...
Worlds oceans warmest on record this summer
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The world's in hot water. Sea-surface temperatures worldwide have been the hottest on record over the last three months, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday.
Elderly may have higher blood pressure in cold weather
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Outdoor temperature and blood pressure appear to be correlated in the elderly, with higher rates of hypertension in cooler months, according to a report in the January 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Wet or dry, Montana still threatened by West Nile
Jun 11, 2008 |
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West Nile virus is apparently here to stay despite Montana's cool, wet spring, says Montana State University entomologist Greg Johnson.
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