Archive for June, 2007

Springing ahead

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Spring comes to the Arctic two weeks earlier, on average, than it did a decade ago thanks to global warming. Global warming affects the Earth’s poles much more strongly than it’s lower latitude regions. A study of plant flowering, insect emergence and bird egg laying shows that for some species Spring arrives as much as 30 days earlier.

Plants go with the climate flow

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Home is where the temperature is right as far as plants are concerned, even when great expanses of Arctic Ocean are in the way. An Arctic Island plant study shows that the limiting factor for species migration during climate change is the local climate, not how far the seeds have to go to get there.