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...temperature . . . Just as water helps moderate temperatures of nearby land, large tracts of forests can also help lessen the extremes of land in the area, according to research published in the Jan. 20 issue Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere. "In the case of large lakes, the water can store a lot o...Architectural plan revealed of doomsday arctic seed vault
...ly, scientists determined the impact of rising air temperatures on the permafrost, which is normally between -4C a...s into the rock, ensuring that rising external air temperatures will have no influence on the surrounding permafrost. "Even climate change over the next 200 year...World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
...in Earth's atmosphere could have sustained surface temperatures above freezing before 3.75 billion years ago according to the researchers, led by University of Chicago Assistant Professor Nicolas Dauphas. Co-authors on the study, which appeared online Jan. 16 in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, i...Sea level on the rise -- in real and virtual worlds
...scenarios almost exactly, that global-mean surface temperatures were in the upper part of the range projected by the IPCC, and that observed sea level has been rising faster than the models had projected and closely followed the IPCC Third Assessment Report upper limit of an 88 cm rise between 1990 and 2100. ...Huddling and a drop in metabolism allow penguins to survive the South Pole cold
...rchers conducted the first recordings of deep body temperatures in free ranging birds throughout their breeding cy...eeding emperor penguins at their colony. Deep body temperatures of the five free-ranging penguins throughout their breeding cycle were on average 36.7 0.3C. During...Fruit flies and global warming -- some like it hot
...re much more often caught at the baits at very hot temperatures while control flies were more often caught at cooler temperatures, while there was an overall balance between negative and positive effects of the heat treatment at intermediate temperatures. As Volker Loeschcke puts it, "a small amount of heat expos...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ressure processing ranging from 2 to 15 minutes at temperatures between 41 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Results showed that a 5 minute treatment differing in pressure range was sufficient to inactivate the virus at a variety of temperatures, however, researchers found that inactivation was enhanced when applied at...MIT: Nanocomposities yield strong, stretchy fibers
...xhibits very little distortion even when heated to temperatures above 150 degrees Celsius. In a Nature Materials commentary that accompanied the research paper, Evangelos Manias, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that "molecular composites" such as those...Bumblebee house warming -- it takes a village
...es is their ability to maintain fairly stable body temperatures when flying to flowers. Whether and how they main...heat their bodies, and can remain active at cooler temperatures than many other insects. To achieve optimum conditions for their young, bumblebees rely on nest the...Gene that makes people 'early to bed and early to rise' demystified
... the condition generally show changes in core body temperatures and other characteristics governed by the circadian clock that are shifted up by three to four hours. The syndrome is passed on in a dominant fashion, meaning that it takes just one copy of the abnormal gene to exhibit symptoms. The UCSF group had e...New findings blow a decade of assumptions out of the water
...r denitrification if climate change altered ocean temperatures and the rates of the two processes, for instance. The new findings show the processes are happening within a few hundred miles of each other so the balance could be reached within a decade, the authors estimate. Deutsch compares the old assumption t...Plants point the way to coping with climate change
...ing on local climate. In Scandinavia, where winter temperatures can vary widely, the model plant, Arabidopsis has a slow vernalization response to prevent plants from being 'fooled' into flowering by a short mid-winter thaw. One particular gene, named FLC, delays flowering over the winter and the research team di...Annual plants may cope with global warming better than long-living species
... adaptive evolution after culturing it at elevated temperatures for thousands of generations. Today, Weis is the organizing chairman of Project Baseline, a national effort to collect and preserve seeds from contemporary plant populations. Decades from now, plant biologists will be able to "resurrect" these ances...How fish species suffer as a result of warmer waters
...perature fluctuations, are more tolerant to higher temperatures and display wider thermal windows than, for instance, fishes from polar regions living at constant low temperatures. The latter are able to grow and reproduce only within a very limited thermal tolerance window. Investigations at the Alfred Wegener...Avian flu virus unlikely to spread through water systems
...s. The researchers also found that higher digester temperatures inactivated the virus more quickly. The UV and chlorine tests were conducted at the U.S. Military Academy....New study links western wildfires to Atlantic Ocean surface temperatures
...five centuries with periods of warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. States like Washington, O...North Atlantic warming trend, coupled with warming temperatures and the earlier onset of spring in the West, poses "an increased hazard for wildfires that may conti...Ocean temperature predicts spread of marine species
...tance in warm seas, the effect is more severe when temperatures are below about 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees ...inning their next development stage because colder temperatures cause sluggish metabolisms....Antarctic research within the International Polar Year IPY 2007/08
...under high light intensities with simultaneous low temperatures by scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, in collaboration with the Institute for Polar Ecology in Kiel. The effect of ice movement on species communities of the sea floor is an additional research focus at Dallmann Laboratory. The IPY project C...Durable critters providing insight for human egg preservation
...d frogs use the sugar, glucose, to tolerate frigid temperatures until the summer thaw. While humans dont natural...atural structure of proteins, enable use of warmer temperatures and fewer cryoprotectants. He uses the tried and true intracytoplasmic sperm injection approach to d......he SCI. This is becoming increasingly important as temperatures rise, with the Met Office announcing that several heat records were broken in the UK this year. The team of scientists, led by Dr Li-Xiong Wen, has developed a new type of capsule that shields pesticides from UV light. The research, to be published...