News tagged with tropical regions
Peat fires drive temperatures up
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Peatlands, especially those in tropical regions, sequester gigantic amounts of organic carbon. Human activities are now having a considerable impact on these wetlands. For example, drainage projects, in combination with the ...
QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2009 |
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"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up. In the ...
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No-tillage plus
Jul 28, 2008 |
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Tropical soils often behave differently than temperate soils when being farmed. In tropical regions, soils lose nutrients quickly when cultivated. With food shortages looming and soil quality declining rapidly, new farming ...
New technology needed to monitor rain forest 'tsunami'
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Human impact on tropical forest ecosystems has reached a "tsunami" stage, say scientists, and will require a new generation of sophisticated remote-sensing technology to monitor the changes. Speaking at a January 12, 2009 ...
Tropical forest sustainability: A climate change boon
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Improved management of the world's tropical forests has major implications for humanity's ability to reduce its contribution to climate change, according to a paper published today in the international journal, Science.
Tropical zone expanding due to climate change: study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found.
Cold and ice, not heat, episodically gripped tropical regions 300 million years ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2008 |
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Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago.
Nitrogen pollution boosts plant growth in tropics by 20 percent
Feb 06, 2008 |
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A study by UC Irvine ecologists finds that excess nitrogen in tropical forests boosts plant growth by an average of 20 percent, countering the belief that such forests would not respond to nitrogen pollution.
Tropical regions to be hardest hit by fisheries shifts caused by climate change
Oct 08, 2009 |
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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.
Neglected tropical diseases burden those overseas, but travelers also at risk
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Though little known to most Americans, lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis and other so-called neglected tropical diseases are responsible for severe health burdens, especially among ...
Oil palm research in context: Identifying the need for biodiversity assessment
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) cultivation has expanded dramatically in recent decades and is frequently cited as a major threat to tropical biodiversity. This is because oil palm is grown in lowland tropical regions and so ...
Amazonian amphibian diversity traced to Andes
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Colorful poison frogs in the Amazon owe their great diversity to ancestors that leapt into the region from the Andes Mountains several times during the last 10 million years, a new study from The University ...
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