Climate change affecting even remote arctic environment, study says
...ation of the report to the Arctic Council's senior arctic officials today, CAFF will develop specific recommendations for action, which are expected to be delivered to the Arctic Council's next ministerial meeting in fall 2002. These recommendations will likely chart the course of CAFF's work for the next ...Animals regulate their numbers by own population density
...cological puzzle of how animals - in this case the arctic ground squirrel - manage to control their own popu...3 issue of Nature, the researchers found that when arctic ground squirrel populations reached the maximum limit the environment could support, the females sev...Arctic temperatures warmest in past four centuries, study says
...rd into context," he said. Another issue troubling arctic scientists is the degradation of climate data from the Arctic region, including closures of some hydrometeorological stations and reductions of other climate networks in Canada and Russia, said Serreze. Russia, which had continuously maintained up t...National Science Foundation awards research grant for $1.1 million to UA Museum
...naJonaitis. "With our comprehensive collection of arctic and sub-arctic biological specimens and continued researchprojects performed in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the UA Museum is perfectly suitedto serve as a regional observatory for Alaska and the Circumpolar North," Jonaitis s......emperate forests of South America and the least in arctic and alpine biomes. Climate change will affect h...orthern cities in temperate zones and least in the arctic and southern temperate forests. Overall, land-use change seems to be the dominant driver, althou...New books view storms, the stratosphere, and more
...ayer in the 1930s; sudden explosive warmings ofthe arctic stratosphere in midwinter, called the Berlin Phenomenon, in1952; the 27-month cycle of alternating eastward and westward winds,known as the quasi-biennial oscillation, in 1960; the influence ofvolcanic eruptions in 1970; the ozone hole in 1984; and t...Symposium by ISPRS and the U-M College of Engineering
...eleasing huge amounts of carbon in places like the arctic tundraand the Amazonian rainforest. A combination of space-based measurements andground-based verification of those data has been proposed to get a handle onwhere the carbon is coming from and where it's going. Many of the "sinks" forlocking up atm...Arctic indigenous leaders, scientists to study reindeer and caribou systems
...apes," will explore the impact of humanactivity on arctic caribou and reindeer communities. Arctic residents...ntists and indigenous peoplesto address changes in arctic caribou and reindeer systems. The goal is todevelop and widely disseminate a comprehensive plan for ...New Contaminant Invades Arctic Air
...polychlorinated naphthalenes ' in the air over the arctic region of theglobe. PCNs, predecessors to the infamous PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls),previously have been found in humans, birds, fish, water, air and sediment innon-polar regions in North America and Europe. They also have been found infish fro...Coming Extinction Of One Of UK's Most Minuscule Plants Yields Information On Climate Change
...elic from the last glaciation. As a member of our arctic alpine flora it is unusual in that it is an annual and its abundance from year to year thus depends on the quality of the seed bank in the soil. It appears to have very specific ecological requirements and grows on open basalt gravel terraces where ......ke a months-long bout of insomnia. Barnes studies arctic ground squirrels, groundhog-like rodents that live in the Brooks Range of Alaska, 200 miles north of the ArcticCircle. During hibernation a ground squirrel lowers its body temperature below freezing and stays that way for weeks, virtually braindead, ...