- Study Uses Satellite Imagery to Identify Active magma Systems in East Africa's Rift Valley November 4, 2009
Satellite images compiled over a decade to study volcanic activity in Kenya's section of the African Rift show deformation of four active volcanoes, which underscores the possibility for human hazard. (University of Miami press release)
- Paleoecologists Offer New Insight into How Climate Change will Affect Organisms November 4, 2009
A new study examines some of the potential problems with current prediction methods and calls for the use of a range of approaches when predicting the impact of climate change on organisms. (Lehigh University press release)
- Study Gives Clearer Picture of How Land-Use Changes Affect U.S. Climate November 3, 2009
A study concluded that greener land cover contributes to cooler temperatures, and almost any other change leads to warmer temperatures. (Purdue University press release)
- Deep-Sea Ecosystems Affected by Climate Change November 2, 2009
The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling, and based on long-term studies of two such areas, a new paper shows that animal communities on the abyssal seafloor are affected in a variety of ways by climate change. (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute press release)
- Newly Drilled Ice Cores May be the Longest Taken From the Andes November 2, 2009
Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics. (Ohio State University press release)
- North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting as Ocean Temperatures Warm November 2, 2009
About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from US waters as they move farther offshore, according to a new study. (NOAA press release)
- Snows of Kilimanjaro Shrinking Rapidly, and Likely to be Lost November 2, 2009
The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain. (Ohio State University Institute press release)