British Butterflies in Decline
October 31 — Climate change and loss of habitat are blamed for a decline in the population of butterflies in Britain over the last 30 years. (BBC News on-line)

NASA Helps Map Flood Zones
October 31 — Scientists from NASA?s Stennis Space Center used remote sensing and mapped flood damage in North Carolina after Hurricanes Floyd and Dennis in 1999. The research has potential for mapping out future flood zones. (Cosmiverse.com)

Nature Reveals Evidence of a Warming World
October 30 — Two studies in Science magazine indicate global warming is happening. Ice on an Alaskan river is melting earlier each springtime, and various biological changes have been occurring in Mediterranean ecosystems. (USAToday.com)

Storms Lower Ozone Levels
October 29 — Mini holes in the ozone layer that occur die to fluctuations in the North Atlantic climate are exposing Scandinavia and Europe to higher levels of ultraviolet radiation than normal. (Nature)

Global Warming Alert Issued for U.S. Gulf States
October 25 — A study by scientists in 5 Gulf States predicts increased regional temperatures during the 21st century will lead to sea level rise, more extreme rainfall and drought events, coastal flooding, and plant and animal migrations. (ENN.com)

Global Warming Alert Issued for U.S. Gulf States
October 25 — A study by scientists in 5 Gulf States predicts increased regional temperatures during the 21st century will lead to sea level rise, more extreme rainfall and drought events, coastal flooding, and plant and animal migrations. (ENN.com)

Global Warming Warns Seas Will Rise
October 24 — A report by the Center for Marine and Environmental Analysis out of the University of Miami warns that the flat topography along the Gulf of Mexico makes the land susceptible to the predicted sea level rise of 8 to 20 inches in the next century. (St. Petersburg Times)

A Blustery Winter Forecast
October 19 — Forecasters in the United States are advising Americans to prepare for a full range of winter weather including sharp swings in temperature with threats of heavy lake-effect snows and northeasters. (CBSnews.com)

Advancing Weather Prediction
October 19 — A study funded in part by NASA indicates that shifting winds in the stratosphere during the winter may be used to make better weather predictions on the Earth's surface. (United Press International)

Brilliant Fall Trees Are Under Stress
October 11 — New research from The University of Vermont indicates that many factors, including climate, soils and pollution may influence color development and change on maple tree leaves during the fall season. The study says that stress may help determine the dazzle or dullness of leaves. (ENN.com)

Mushrooms May Slow Global Warming
October 6 — New research hints that fungi and tiny soil organisms adjust to higher temperatures, and do not release carbon dioxide at greater rates than in less heated soils. (Christian Science Monitor)

NASA Experiment Sheds Light on Hurricanes
October 5 — The CAMEX-4 experiment flew over Hurricane Humberto and took radar, temperature and wind measurements, which may lead scientists to better hurricane predictions. (United Press International)

A New Understanding of Ocean-Heat Transfer
October 4 — Researchers studying oxygen in shells of microscopic animals from ocean sediments of 50-70 million years ago confirmed a theory that the tropics warmed as atmospheric CO2 increased. (Christian Science Monitor)

U.S. Plants Could Be Harmed By Warmer Climate
October 4 — A new study says that several species of plants in the U.S. Midwest could become extinct within 30 years is climate conditions continue to become drier and warmer as predicted. (Reuters)

Geologists Surprised to Find Glaciers
October 4 — Geologists exploring the Continental Divide have discovered more than 100 additional glaciers in a single summer. (Associated Press)

Icelandic Weather System May Explain Melting Arctic Ice
October 3 — New NASA research indicates largely natural fluctuations in a semi-permanent low pressure system over Iceland has contributed to decreases in sea ice in the Arctic over the last two decades. (Scientific American on-line, United Press International)

Scientists to Study Antarctica's Ice for Warming
October 1 — The Antarctica Drilling Consortium program begins the week of October 7th, to learn the effects of global warming on Antarctica?s ice sheets. (Reuters)

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