When autumn rolls around, the leaf peepers come out in force. Armed with digital cameras, they record the most spectacular displays of fall foliage. Well according to a study in the journal Functional Ecology [Toshie Mizunuma et al., The relationship

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Climate change may be partly to blame for the massive die-off of pine trees in the western U.S. But it works the other way, too: forest die-offs can alter the global climate. I like thinking of this as a parallel to something like El Nino. Abigail Sw

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Severe Drought, Wildfires Threaten Water Resources This is Valles Caldera. Actually, it's the giant mouth of a dormant super volcano that last erupted 40,000 years ago. In the millennia since then, the terrain developed high-elevation forests, of abu

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A discovery of a mummified forest that's between two and 10 million years old is giving scientists a new window on climate change. Joel Barker, a research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University, discovered the mummif

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Snow-whiteⅠ Once there was a Queen. She was sitting at the window. There was snow outside in the garden--snow on the hill and in the lane, snow on the huts and on the trees: all things were white with snow. She had some cloth in her hand and a need

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But especially, in the winter, the extent to which this transportation and planting of nuts is carried on, is made apparent by the snow. 白雪皑皑的冬天,松鼠们忙碌搬运、种植松果的活动更为清晰可见。 In almost every wood y

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