Monday, June 27, 2011

Remember 2010, when a brutal winter killed 20% of livestock in Mongolia? Science bloggers at the New York Times evidently don't

Heroic scientists attempt to save Mongolia from slightly warmer weather!!

Climate Change in Mongolia - NYTimes.com
The project also includes a strong educational component, providing undergraduate and graduate students a unique opportunity to travel and be involved in critical ecological research.
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For those ecologists studying vegetation, like myself, the field season in northern Mongolia tends to start in early June when plants begin to grow, and when there remains only a slight chance of a snowstorm.
2010:  A fifth of Mongolia's livestock dead after brutal winter
Temperatures plummeted to 40 below zero and colder. In many places, animals started dying in February and then kept dying.

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