Public release date: 3-Mar-2008 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Contact: Beth King kingb@si.edu 703-487-3774, ext.8216 Smithsonian announces Global Forest Carbon Research Initiative Forests contain nearly 40 percent of the world’s carbon-more than the atmosphere contains-but too little is known about forest carbon dynamics to predict whether anthropogenic global change will increase… Continue reading
———————————————— ” … the freeze killed … in an area encompassing Nebraska, Maryland, South Carolina, and Texas. Subsequent drought limited regrowth.” ——————————————————- Public release date: 3-Mar-2008 American Institute of Biological Sciences Contact: Holly Menninger hmenninger@aibs.org 202-628-1500 Will global warming increase plant frost damage? Widespread damage from 2007 Eastern US… Continue reading
———————————————– “Now that all the records have been shown to coincide, “it suggests that the whole world hydrologic cycle varies in unison, on a pretty rapid time scale,” said Gisela Winckler …” ——————————————————————————- Public release date: 28-Feb-2008 The Earth Institute at Columbia University Each year, long-distance winds drop up to… Continue reading
———————— “Under the calving grounds of the Western [Alaska] Arctic Herd is one of the largest low-sulfur coal deposits in the world. The Teshekpuk Lake area of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the calving grounds of the Teshekpuk Herd, is facing proposed oil development, and as you continue east across North… Continue reading