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Stories about: grasslands

Forests Act 'Weird' During Heatwaves While you would expect forests to have a cooling effect on the environment during heatwaves, new research suggests that this is not the case when the extreme atmospheric events set in. When temperatures start rising at the start of an ensuing heatwave, woodlands are actually a lot slower to cool the air than grasslan... 29 October 2010 10:22 GMT Forests Make Heatwaves Hotter, But Only on Occasion New evidence would appear to suggest that forests can at times support the development of heatwaves, but also show that the trees ultimately promote cooling, if the heatwaves spans a long period of time.At first, when temperatures soar, trees reduce the amount of evaporation they usually produce. This leads to a rise... 6 September 2010 09:29 GMT Mammoths Lived in Britain Until 14,000 Years Ago According to a new scientific study, published in the latest issue of the Geological Journal, the woolly mammoth persisted in the territory that is now the United Kingdom 6,000 years longer than first estimated. The new research, which analyzed several fossils found in Shropshire in 1986, determined that the large be... 18 June 2009 04:39 GMT