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Climate Is Changing Fast in West Antarctica
Fast-rising temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula are having an impact on the ice and marine life, and providing clues about future ecosystem changes elsewhere.
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Polar Ice, Penguin Tracks and Phytoplankton
Jeff Bowman, a postdoctoral research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is in Antarctica for the field season studying how phytoplankton and bacteria interact. Follow his reports from Palmer Station.
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What Are Those Phytoplankton Up To? Genetics Holds Some Clues
What will happen to phytoplankton as the oceans warm, carbon dioxide levels rise, and nutrients become scarce? The answer matters to the oxygen we breathe.
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Ancient Pollen Points to Mega-Droughts in California Thousands of Years Ago
Ancient pollen spores that were in the air when mammoths roamed Southern California are providing new insights into historic droughts in the region, including how a series of mega droughts 25,500 to 27,500 years ago changed the ecological landscape.
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Make Yourself Count: Sandy Hook ‘BioBlitz’
Amateur naturalists will gather this weekend at the Sandy Hook, N.J., unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area to count species of plants and animals.
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Arctic Oil Drilling: Deluding Communities About the Benefits of Resource Extraction
We continue to need resources that the earth provides and someday we may even mine other planets. But communities that rely on mining alone, or even depend on resource extraction as their primary source of revenue, are asking to be left behind in the modern global economy.
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Seeing the Amazon’s Future Through the Fog
Scientists have developed a new approach to modeling the water and carbon cycles in the Amazon that could lead to better climate forecasts and improved water resource management.
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How Climate Influences Wolf Recovery in California
Some evidence suggests that the glaciers on Mt. Shasta might have something to do with the location of a newly-spotted wolf pack in northern California.
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Tree Rings on Hawai’i Could Hold New Knowledge About El Niño
Annual tree rings are a rare find in the tropical islands of the eastern Pacific. The new discovery of trees with annual rings on a Hawaiian volcano could provide new climate data from a part of the world where much of the variability of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation originates.
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