Science news articles about 'wetter climate'

... fossils typical of far lower elevations and warmer, wetter climates. Back at the FSU-based National High ... the late Pliocene era in the region (a drastic climate change). Paleo-magnetic study determined ...

... and population increase in warm, moist environments, one would suspect that a transition to a warmer, wetter climate could have opened the door for their spread to a new region. According to Higgs, ...

... the ice forces them into the water before molting and drastically reduces their fertility. A warmer, wetter climate may be the principal threat to Lake Baikal's unique biological heritage, but it is ...

... . "This is alarming because forecasts suggest many species will go extinct with the climate warming that we expect to occur, but it also gives us confidence that costly conservation investments made ...

... most of the bird species studied in California's Sierra Nevada mountains have adjusted to climate change over the last century by moving to sites with the temperature and precipitation conditions they ...

... generated by the sea-surface temperature patterns and not by some other influence." Some current climate models have forecast a wetter climate for West Africa, while others have forecast a drier one ...

Fresh craters expose subsurface water ice on Mars, hint at recent wetter climate.

... of Wisconsin-Madison geographer Joseph Mason. Wetter periods allow vegetation to take root on ... ago, a time period generally thought to have a wetter climate. "The result challenges existing ideas ...