By NICKY PHILLIPS AND ERIK JENSENMay 5, 2010 WE HAVE lost the war against our most notorious feral invader. ”The eradication of cane toads is not currently possible,” a federal government report concedes. The admission comes as scientists say a small group of the slimy pests recently discovered in Taren Point in Sydney – originally […]
By Richard BlackEnvironment correspondent, BBC News British plants are flowering earlier now than at any time in the last 250 years, according to new analysis. Researchers stitched together nearly 400,000 first flowering records covering 405 species across the nation. Writing in the journal Proceedings B, they show that the average first flowering date has been […]
By Monica Konija, National Science Foundationlivescience.com – Sat Apr 3, 9:02 am ET Global warming is a hot topic, and it’s causing concern for scientists studying winter annuals in the Sonoran Desert. While desert winters have become warmer and drier over the years, climate changes have pushed the arrival of winter rains later in the […]
By Barbara Barte OsbornBee Correspondent, The Sacramento BeePublished: Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 2BLast Modified: Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010 – 12:28 am The Lake Tahoe-area bears are up early, and they’re ravenous. “They feel the warmth and come out of their dens, but there’s no natural food for them yet,” said […]
By Janet LarsenMarch 25, 2010 …With global average temperatures up 0.5 degrees Celsius since the 1970s, springtime warming is coming earlier across the earth’s temperate regions. A number of organisms have responded to the warming temperatures by altering the timing of key life-cycle events. The problem, however, is that not all species are adjusting at […]
By BILL HANNA, billhanna@star-telegram.com Monarch butterflies, hit hard by strong storms at their winter home in Mexico, have dwindled to their lowest population levels in decades as they begin to return to Texas on their springtime flight back to the United States and Canada. The monarch loss is estimated at 50 to 60 percent and […]
For the first time, climate change has been shown to alter the timing of a natural event – the emergence of the common brown butterfly For the first time, a causal link has been established between climate change and the timing of a natural event – the emergence of the common brown butterfly. Although there […]
Songbirds on the US east coast are becoming smaller, a trend thought to be driven by climate changes. By Matt WalkerEditor, Earth News Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause. A study of almost half a million birds, belonging to over 100 species, shows that many are […]
ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2010) — Some animals, it seems, are going on a diet, while others have expanding waistlines. It’s likely these are reactions to rapidly rising temperatures due to global climate change, speculates Prof. Yoram Yom-Tov of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology, who has been measuring the evolving body sizes of birds and […]
By David Adam, environment correspondentThe Guardian, Tuesday 9 February 2010 As snow flurries continued to cause disruption across the country today, spring may feel further away than ever. But recent winters have been ending earlier than ever before, according to a new assessment of Britain’s wildlife that reveals global warming could be disrupting the delicate […]
