News tagged with western regional climate
Scientists track warming trend in northwestern North America
Feb 12, 2009 |
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A new Montana State University study says that weather, especially in late winter and early spring, is getting warmer in northwestern North America.
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Phytoplankton is changing along the Antarctic Peninsula
Mar 12, 2009 |
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As the cold, dry climate of the western Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer and more humid, phytoplankton - the bottom of the Antarctic food chain - is decreasing off the northern part the peninsula and increasing further ...
Tracking down abrupt climate changes
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Aug 01, 2008 |
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In an article in the scientific magazine Nature Geosciences, the geoscientists Achim Brauer, Peter Dulski and Jörg Negendank, (emeritus Professor) from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Gerald Haug from the DF ...
Researchers find that humans are cause of diminishing water flow in the West
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Jan 31, 2008 |
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The Rocky Mountains have warmed by 2 degrees Fahrenheit. The snowpack in the Sierras has dwindled by 20 percent and the temperatures there have heated up by 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
Stronger coastal winds due to climate change may have far-reaching effects
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Dec 19, 2008 |
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Future increases in wind strength along the California coast may have far-reaching effects, including more intense upwelling of cold water along the coast early in the season and increased fire danger in Southern California, ...
EPA sued over claims of air pollution in West
Jun 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was sued Friday by an environmental group that claims the agency has failed to safeguard public health in the West by not limiting the transmission of air pollution across ...
Floods to become commonplace by 2080
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.
Dirty snow causes early runoff in Cascades, Rockies
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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Soot from pollution causes winter snowpacks to warm, shrink and warm some more. This continuous cycle sends snowmelt streaming down mountains as much as a month early, a new study finds. How pollution affects ...
Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers
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Nov 26, 2009 |
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Intervals of regional warmth and cold in the past are linked to the El Niño phenomenon and the so-called "North Atlantic Oscillation" in the Northern hemisphere's jet stream, according to a team of climate scientists. These ...
Cap-and-trade policies could hurt Utah
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Utah consumers could face billions in losses from a state or regional cap-and-trade policy approach to climate change, a survey said.
Better regional monitoring of CO2 needed as global levels continue rising
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission reductions, ...
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