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California Study Identifies Birds Most Vunerable To Climate Change
Press Release from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and California Department of Fish And Game New study will help protect vulnerable birds from impacts of climate change Scientists from the...
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Early Snowmelt Causing Decline Mormon Fritillary Butterfly
Mormon Fritillary (Photo credit: shell game) Science Daily reports on how an early snowmelt in the Colorado Rocky Mountains is having a negative impact on the population of the Mormon Fritillary...
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CA Birds at Risk From Climate Change
Point Reyes Bird Observatory Press Release: Birds at Risk From Climate Change Scientists from PRBO Conservation Science and the Department of Fish and Game have completed an innovative study on the...
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Plant Flowering Happening Even Earlier Than Predicted
BBC News reported in its story Plants flower faster than climate change models predict, on how scientific models are not accurately predicting the impact of global warming on plants. Researchers found...
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How Far Can A Polar Bear Swim?
The Environmental News Network reported on a study published in Zoology on how far can Polar Bears Swim. The Researchers found that Polar Bears Ursus maritimus regularly swimming over 30 miles (48...
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How Little Auks Are Dealing With Climate Change.
Little Auks are the smallest and most common seabird in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Science Daily reports on how they have successfully adapted to climate change so far. They have altered their diet...
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Where Have All the Hummingbirds Gone?
Press Release from National Science Foundation Glacier lilies and broad-tailed hummingbirds out of sync Glacier lilies flower within days of snowmelt and are an important nectar resource. Credit: David...
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Which Butterflies Are Most At Risk from Climate Change?
Science Daily reported that butterfly species that emerge later in the year or fly higher in the mountains have evolved to deal with a shorter window of opportunity to reproduce. Species that emerge in...
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Thoreau Helping Scientists Study Climate Change
Thoreau’s journals of flowers bloom periods are helping scientists studying climate change. Thoreau kept detailed notes of bloom schedules in Concord Mass in the 1850′s that scientists are comparing...
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Plants Thought To Be ‘Stable’ Responding To Climate Change
Press Release from UC Santa Barbara Plants Previously Thought to be ‘Stable’ Found to be Responding to Climate Change May 23, 2012 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Many wild plant species thought to be...
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What is Phenology?
Phenology is the study of periodic plant and animal life cycle events and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations in climate. The USA National Phenology Network monitors the...
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Climate Change’s Impact And Threat To European Mountain Flora
An article in YubaNet reports that across Europe mountain plants are moving higher. An increase was seen in the number of plants in the summit areas in Northern and Central Europe. This was in contrast...
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Bird Migration Schedules Versus Changes In Climate
The threats of rigid migration schedules and changes in climate A study of songbird migrations reveals that although an entire species may have arrival dates that vary by as much as three weeks,...
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Butterflies Head North To Cope With Warming Temperatures
YubaNet reported on a Harvard Study documenting how butterflies are moving north due a warming climate. This unique study analyzed the 19 years of data recorded by an amateur naturalist group, The...
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Extinct and Endangered Species Interactive Map
The Guardian has an interactive map for endangered species. They report: Over the past 500 years, human activity is known to have decimated 869 species. Habitat destruction, hunting, alien species,...
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What Did The Hurricane Do To The Birds?
Updated 11/1/12 I can’t believe they named one of the most damaging hurricane’s after me. I don’t think I can add anything that you haven’t read about the Hurricane that the meteorologists and news...
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Climate Change Shrinking Mountain Meadows
Science Daily reported on the loss of mountain meadows in the Pacific Northwest. They discussed a study that reported reduced snowpacks, and longer growing seasons from climate change are making it...
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Worst-Case Predictions On Climate Change May Be Most Accurate
National Geographic reports that a new climate-change study in the journal Science says warming is here to stay. The researchers also believe that future warming will probably be on the high side of...
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Sea Levels Rising Faster Than Predicted
NPR reported that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has underestimated the rise in sea level. Over the past decades sea levels have risen 60 faster than predicted. This finding is...
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Migrating Birds Delayed By Horn Of Africa Drought
ScienceDaily reported on how last year's drought at the Horn of Africadelayed bird migration in Europe. As a result of the drought migrating birds that pass through the horn needed more time to feed...
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