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Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
08-13-2007 · EurekAlert!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 of Alberta.
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- The woes of Kilimanjaro: Don't blame global warming
06-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Two scientists writing in a new magazine article say that global warming has nothing to do with the decline of ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro, and using the mountain in northern Tanzania as a "poster child" for climate change is simply inaccurate.
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- Stanford researchers say climate change will significantly increase impending bird extinctions
12-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Where do you go when you've reached the top of a mountain and you can't go back down? It's a question increasingly relevant to plants and animals, as their habitats slowly shift to higher elevations, driven by rising temperatures worldwide. In one of the first analyses of extinction rates to incorporate the most recent climate change scenarios set forth in the IPCC 2007 reports, Stanford researchers say that by 2100 up to 30 percent of land-bird species may be extinct.
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- Midges send undeniable message -- Planet is warming
12-11-2006 · EurekAlert!
Small insects that inhabit some of the most remote parts of the United States are sending a strong message about climate change. New research suggests that changes in midge communities in some of these areas provide additional evidence that the globe is indeed getting warmer. Researchers created a history of changing midge communities for six remote mountain lakes in the western United States.
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- Mountain summits in the Alps becoming increasingly similar
11-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
Alpine summit vegetation will become increasingly homogenized as a result of climate change, say researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research writing in the international Journal of Vegetation Science. The biologists assessed data on the composition and species numbers of plants on the summits of seven mountains measuring over 3000 meters in the Bernina range in Switzerland over a period of almost 100 years.
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- ESA joins UN climate talks in Kenya
11-06-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
The United Nations annual summit on climate change this week in Nairobi, Kenya, seeks to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol strategy, which becomes obsolete in 2012, to restrict emissions of heat-trapping gases that drive climate change. ESA joins the activities to share results of its satellite-based Kyoto-supporting services.
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- Climate change has surprising effect on endangered naked carp
12-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
Forthcoming in the January/February 2007 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, a groundbreaking study reveals an unanticipated way freshwater fish may respond to water diversion and climate change. Endangered naked carp migrate annually between freshwater rivers, where they spawn, and a lake in Western China, where they feed and grow. However, Lake Qinghai is drying up and becoming increasingly more saline -- leading to surprising adjustments to the carps' metabolic rate.
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- Doctors should measure the carbon footprint of their conference activities
02-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
Doctors must lead by example on climate change by reducing the carbon footprint of medical conferences, says an editorial in this week’s BMJ.
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- Scientists warn of climate change risk to marine turtles
02-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
North American marine turtles are at risk if global warming occurs at predicted levels, according to scientists from the University of Exeter. An increase in temperatures of just one degree Celsius could completely eliminate the birth of male turtles from some beaches. A rise of three degrees Celsius would lead to extreme levels of infant mortality and declines in nesting beaches across the USA.
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- Interplay of weather, fish, people and faith explored
03-06-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Emeritus Professor Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara emphasized the complex interplay of climatic conditions and social and cultural development in his presentation, "In Cod We Trust: Fishing, Subsistence Agriculture and Climate Change, c. A.D. 900 to 1400."
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- Want to monitor climate change? P-p-p-pick up a penguin!
04-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
We are used to hearing about the effects of climate change in terms of unusual animal behavior, such as altering patterns of fish and bird migration. However, scientists at the University of Birmingham are trying out an alternative bio-indicator -- the king penguin -- to investigate whether they can be used to monitor the effects of climate change.
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