Endangered Coral and Climate Change

Caribbean coral species are dying off, indicating dramatic shifts in the ecological balance under the sea, a new scientific study of Caribbean marine life shows..........

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North American Birds Shift Northward Due to Global Warming

A new study in Conservation Biology analyzed the breeding ranges of North American birds over a 26-year period. The results show that the ranges have shifted northward; coinciding with a period of increasing global temperatures. These results were similar to those found in studies conducted in Great Britain, showing the worldwide extent of these distributional changes..........

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Diamonds from Outer Space

If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep, universal time, geologists have discovered. Black diamonds came from none other than interstellar space..........

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Hot Prehistoric Conditions Could Return By 2100?

Earth's future could resemble its hottest ancient epoch, a new study says. Picture palm trees swaying in Canada, warm seas lapping at shorelines hundreds of feet higher than they are today—and no natural ice anywhere..........

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Study Suggests Dramatic Climate Changes During Dinosaur Era

Ancient rocks from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean suggest dramatic climate changes during the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era, a time once thought to have been monotonously hot and humid..........

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Study Finds Earth Reaching Warmest Levels Since Thousands of Years Ago

The study appears in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, authored by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, N.Y. and colleagues from Columbia University, Sigma Space Partners, Inc., and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). The study concludes that, because of a rapid warming trend over the past 30 years, the Earth is now reaching and passing through the warmest levels in the current interglacial period, which has lasted nearly 12,000 years. This warming is forcing a migration of plant and animal species toward the poles..........

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Liquid Carbon Dioxide Lake Beneath the Ocean

A team of scientists based in Japan and Germany has found an unusual "lake" of liquid carbon dioxide beneath the ocean floor..........

National Geographic News

Increased Methane Release from Oceans on the Horizon?

The last two times the Earth warmed considerably and put glaciers on the run, huge plumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane bubbled out of the ocean off the California coast.

An international team of researchers say they think they know why. If they're right, manmade greenhouse warming could unleash fresh plumes of seabed methane along the North American and European coasts that could make the planet warmer still and speed the acidification of the oceans..........

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