Press Release 11-101Big Clue to Future Climate Change in Small Plants Scientists find surprising response to higher levels of carbon dioxide in 13 species of grassland plants A wild lupine blooms at NSF's Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research si...

Published: Monday, April 25, 2011 - 10:03 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Sara Muñoz Vallés et al. Although the dune ecosystem is unusual, fragile and is protected by the "habitats" directive of the network Natura 2000, ...

Published: Monday, April 18, 2011 - 13:33 in Earth & Climate Oxygenation brings dead sea bottoms to life. This creates the necessary conditions for the establishment of new ecosystems that enable nature itself to deal with eutrophication. By cond...

Despite being able to move from a native range to a new one, sometimes by jumping continents, grasses and flowering relatives of grasses like clover, sunflowers, and milkweed, are not as invasive as previously thought. (Credit: iStockphoto) U. MINNESO...

In a finding that has global implications for climate research, scientists have discovered that when icebergs cool and dilute the seas through which they pass for days, they also raise chlorophyll levels in the water that may in turn increase carbon d...

(University of California - San Diego) Scripps researchers document the history of sudden global warming events, impacts on marine life

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) At the end of the 20th century, the rise in sea level of the Mediterranean sea was lower than in the rest of the world due to atmospheric pressure, but since the start of the 21st century the leve...

Photo: Heat USA We're already well aware that the American Southwest, which is naturally hot and dry, is seriously strapped for water. And the situation is getting worse every day, with populations in California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico conti...

(European Space Agency) Our growing reliance on coastal waters for food, trade and tourism means that these delicate ecosystems need to be more closely monitored to guarantee their future sustainability.

CALTECH (US) — New evidence supports the idea that a mass extinction 450 million years ago was linked to a cooling climate. More than 75 percent of marine species died during the extinction, the second-largest such event in Earth’s history. ...