Apr 22 2010

Flowering Plants Bloom Earlier With Warming

Tag: Climate,Climate Change,Gardening,Global Warming,Plants,Shrubs,Spring,Trees — Larry O'Hanlon @ 4:00 am
Got a window and some time on your hands? On this Earth Day, find out how you can help researchers document climate change in action.

Apr 09 2010

Pre-Stonehenge Megaliths Linked to Death Rituals

Tag: Archaeologist,Archaeology,Ceremonies,Death and Dying,Prehistoric,Spring,The Sun,Winter — Jennifer Viegas @ 9:13 am
Nine recently discovered stone monuments in England predate Stonehenge but share similar construction and alignment with the famous megaliths.

Mar 16 2010

Spring, and ‘a terrible case of déjà vu’

Tag: Floods,Meteorology,Spring,Water,Winter — John D. Cox @ 4:10 pm
National forecasters and emergency managers warned Tuesday that the Upper Midwest faces a second spring of "potentially historic flooding" with the melting of snow and ice from El Niño-driven winter storms. Administrator Jane Lubchenco of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Feb 12 2010

When Spring Arrives, Life is Timing

Tag: Animal Breeding,Animal Relationships,Climate Change,Global Warming,Meteorology,Spring — John D. Cox @ 6:20 pm
The most comprehensive and systematic analysis of the environmental impacts of a changing climate confirms what many individual studies have found -- the arrival of warmer temperatures earlier in the year is posing a variety of life-cycle risks to plants ...

Feb 05 2010

How climate is changing Walden Pond

Tag: Climate Change,Conservation,Global Warming,Meteorology,Plants,Spring — John D. Cox @ 7:00 pm
There are places around the Concord woods near Walden Pond that the naturalist Henry David Thoreau probably would not recognize. As climate has warmed in the northeastern U.S., many of the native plants that flourished 150 years ago have been ...
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