News: Duke Study Disputes Idea that Trees Can 'Relocate' Quickly in Response to Climate Change
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In a study with implications for how North American trees might respond to a changing climate, molecular information collected by Duke University researchers refutes a widely accepted theory that many of the continent's tree species migrated rapidly from the deep South as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age.
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By Michael Hill  ALBANY, N.Y. - The tree stood tall and spindly in the hot sun 380 million years ago until something toppled it, maybe a storm or an earthquake.   It fell into water and dammed up in a muddy delta.
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Arctic plant seeds are able to migrate the distances needed to survive climate changes, scientists suggest.
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A study in Central Africa suggests that logging and tropical rain forests can coexist. Some environmental groups disagree.
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A previous study at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Met Office, demonstrated that large-scale global warming is not a result of urban development.
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Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
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Science & environment: Humans are evolving faster than ever, says a new study tracking changes in our genes. But some scientists believe we may be going backwards
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Contrary to the conventional wisdom, scientists have found that logging big dead trees after a wildfire and planting young ones makes future fires worse, at least for the first 10 or 20 years while the young trees create a volatile new source of fuel.
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Extreme weather, drought and spreading disease are on the horizon if something isn't done to rein in the human impact on the environment, a new study says. By the Associated Press.
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On New Year's Day, let us contemplate signs of future weather. In my Findings column, I argue that "availability entrepreneurs" have been exploiting short-term weather in order to awaken the public to what could be a real long-term danger, global warming. Hurricanes, blizzards, floods, droughts, exceptionally hot years â all these have been linked to [...].
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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A study by UK scientists claim climate change alone did not cause the collapse of an Antarctic ice shelf.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 17--MACHIPONGO -- "If I were king of Virginia, you'd all move back," said Orrin H. Pilkey, the Duke University geologist, author and lightning rod for controversy when the subject of coastal development comes up.
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Researchers at a national science laboratory in south-central Washington have found a way to achieve in days what takes Mother Nature millions of years &#151; converting wood to mineral.
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Greece&#39;s huge forest fires have been  blamed by some on global warming, but satellite images of smoke  plumes drifting as far as Africa prompt the question: are  forests a major source of greenhouse gas?
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SPRING TORRENTS: In one of the most comprehensive studies of plants&#39; response to the global warming trend, Cornell scientists and their colleagues at the University of Wisconsin concluded
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A new technique for tracking tempests using tree rings could help settle the debate about whether global warming is affecting hurricane frequency.