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Wood heating is polluting European mountain valleys - Earth.com
Jul 29, 2022 ... Since wood combustion is the largest source of small particulate matter (PM 2.5), it is possible that people living in mountain valleys, and ...
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Are animals bigger on the rainy side of the mountain? - Earth.com
Sep 1, 2022 ... The mice on the western slopes of the Andes are bigger because that side of the mountain range gets more rain, which means there's more plentiful food for the ...
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Rising mountain ranges have turned Central Asia into an arid ...
Oct 13, 2016 ... ... mountain ranges over geologic time. Researchers have long cited the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan Mountains around 50 ...
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Mountain formation led to an explosion in plant diversity - Earth.com
Jul 30, 2020 ... The remarkable diversity of plants and trees surrounding the Tibetan Plateau can be traced back 30 million years to the formation of new ...
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Mountain snowpacks could disappear in the western U.S. - Earth.com
Oct 26, 2021 ... Due to global warming, mountain snowpacks are on the decline, and could soon shrink dramatically or even disappear. In the western U.S., ...
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Mountain streams are not as clean as previously thought - Earth.com
Dec 23, 2021 ... water quality in high-elevation streams has been negatively affected by sediment caused by deforestation, constructions, and agricultural ...
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Mountain gorillas are making a comeback - Earth.com
Jun 3, 2018 ... Home to one of only two populations of mountain gorillas, the Virunga Mountains is a chain of volcanoes along the northern border of Rwanda ...
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African mountain forests store huge amounts of carbon - Earth.com
Aug 25, 2021 ... A new study published in the journal Nature has revealed that tropical mountain forests in Africa store a much larger amount of carbon than previously thought.
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Mountain wildflower species could be wiped out by rising temps ...
Feb 22, 2018 ... A new study has revealed that climate warming caused the local extinction of a Rocky Mountain flowering plant.
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Underwater mountain range near Hawaii is bouncing back after ...
Aug 8, 2019 ... An underwater mountain range near Hawaii is making an impressive recovery after overfishing severely devastated corals and sponges that once thrived along the ...
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