News articles tagged with 'Bering'
Bering Strait influenced ice age climate patterns worldwide
— 11 Jan 2010 15:27 | EnvironmentIn a vivid example of how a small geographic feature can have far-reaching impacts on climate, new research shows that water levels in the Bering Strait helped drive global climate…
Bering Glacier melting faster than thought
— 16 Aug 2008 12:54 | EnvironmentA new system of measuring water melt shows that the Bering Glacier - the largest glacier in North America - is melting at double the rate that scientists thought. The glacier is releasing…
Pacific shellfish ready to invade Atlantic
— 8 Aug 2008 16:12 | EnvironmentAs the Arctic Ocean warms this century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was interrupted by cooling conditions…
Researchers discover stinging truths about jellyfish blooms in the Bering Sea
— 29 May 2008 22:16 | BiologyA new study helps explain a cyclic increase and decrease of jellyfish populations, which transformed parts of the Bering Sea - one of the U.S.'s most productive fisheries - into veritable…
New evidence supports coastal migration theory
— 8 May 2008 18:00 | Geology and palaeontologyNew evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for…
Humans inhabited New World's doorstep for 20,000 years
— 14 Feb 2008 13:31 | Geology and palaeontologyThe human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000-year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering…
Greenhouse ocean may downsize fish
— 13 Jan 2008 19:02 | EnvironmentBut during this century, the sea's rich food web - stretching from Alaska to Russia - could fray as algae adapt to greenhouse conditions. 'All the fish that ends up in McDonald's, fish…
Study supports single main migration across Bering Strait
— 28 Nov 2007 15:25 | Geology and palaeontologyDid a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the native peoples of North and South America?…
Researchers posit new ideas about human migration from Asia to Americas
— 27 Oct 2007 07:38 | Geology and palaeontologyQuestions about human migration from Asia to the Americas have perplexed anthropologists for decades, but as scenarios about the peopling of the New World come and go, the big questions…
Rising surface temperatures drive back winter ice in Barents Sea
— 18 Sep 2007 16:05 | EnvironmentRising sea-surface temperatures in the Barents Sea, northeast of Scandinavia, are the prime cause of the retreating winter ice edge over the past 26 years, according to research by…
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