The impact of global warming in the Arctic may differ from the predictions of computer models of the region, according to a pair of Penn State biologists. The team — which includes Eric Post, a Penn State associate professor of biology, and Christian Pederson, a Penn State graduate student — has shown that grazing animals [...]
Researchers at Durham, the RSPB and Cambridge University have found that birds such as the Cirl Bunting and Dartford Warbler are becoming more common across a wide range of habitats in Britain as temperatures rise.
Unfortunately, some northern species, such as the Fieldfare and Redwing, are not faring quite so well and their numbers are falling.
Researchers [...]
Global warming will allow exotic plants and animals to invade vulnerable Australian ecosystems, the WWF conservation group has warned.
Warmer temperatures will allow feral animals and invasive weeds to gain access to cooler and higher areas where they have not previously been able to exist, according to WWF’s Invasive Species Policy Officer Julie Kirkwood.
“Exotic species [...]
Argentine scientists are taking a novel approach to studying global warming - strapping plastic tanks to the backs of cows to collect their burps and farts.
Researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to [...]
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Paying rural landowners in Oregon’s Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won’t necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found.
The study, to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed hypothetical payments that were given [...]
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The United States must protect endangered wildlife from global warming and other threats within its own borders and not rely on other countries, such as Canada, to do the job, according to a coalition of 10 conservation organizations that announced today its intention to file a legal challenge against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The [...]
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A unique species of reptiles that has roamed the Earth since the time of the dinosaurs could soon be wiped out due to climate change.
Global warming is threatening to turn all the ancient creatures into males by 2085.
Tuataras have three eyes and can live for more than 100 years. Their gender is determined in the [...]
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Endangered migratory whales will be faced with shrinking crucial Antarctic foraging zones which will contain less food and will be further away, a new analysis of the impacts of climate change on Southern Ocean whales has found.
A new report* summarises WWF research showing that levels of global warming predicted over the next 40 years will [...]
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A detailed analysis of data from nearly 50 years of weekly fish-trawl surveys in Narragansett Bay and adjacent Rhode Island Sound has revealed a long-term shift in species composition, which scientists attribute primarily to the effects of global warming.
According to Jeremy Collie, professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, [...]
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says a University of Washington conservation biologist.
Oil pollution, depletion of fisheries and rampant coastline development that threatens breeding habitat for many penguin species, along with Earth’s warming [...]
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