Climate

Trees lose out to climate change

If you go down to the woods today, you can't see any bears in Europe. The great boreal forests of Finland do have some Ursus arctos (the Eurasian brown bear)...

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Relicts are natural ecological laboratories

Did the Ozark Mountains once look like this? The prickly pear seems to indicate that cacti, perhaps even the great Carnegiea gigantea here in the Sonoran desert, near Scottsdale, dominated...

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Oceania sinks, and like New Zealand, we have to help

Tabuaeran Island in Kiribati is well known for its shellfish (fished for here with pegged mats) and great swells. Ideal for surfing, but how long can a community survive there...

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The emperor has no ice

We're taking the chick skiing, but there'll be no ice next year; Emperor penguin image; Credit: © Shutterstock Stephanie Jenouvrier and Hal Caswell of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and several...

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Ice influence will prevent some cold spells

The hunters on the sea ice now have no food in the Arctic. This could lead to extinction for perhaps the most iconic bear on earth; No ice image; Credit:...

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Even more carbon emitted from tropical forests!

Deep in the Amazon, something stirs. The deceptive nature of carbon emissions has enlarged our worries about global warming, just as this beautiful longhorn beetle, Hedypathes betulinus could be another...

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Melting Antarctic ice and sea levels

Our knowledge of the huge continent has been limited to coasts and island. Now we are starting to discover what the interior Antarctic massif, including these Transantarctic Mountains (TAM to...

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