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Dark brown lesions on stems, with white fungal growth developing under moist conditions, are characteristic of late blight, which caused the Irish Potato Famine

Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Identified From Dried Museum Samples

A team of scientists has identified a unique strain of potato blight which they believe triggered the Irish potato famine in the 19th century.

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Climate Change Models Be Producing Inaccurate Results, Study of Ice Age Warns

When two scientists set about researching rainfall patterns across during the last ice age, they didn’t plan on the making the discovery they did: almost none of the climate models they tested were able to reproduce their results.

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Alaska Volcano Ash Reaches Town, Breaches 20,000-foot Threshold

Aviation warnings remain at the second highest level above Pavlof Volcano in Alaska as the mountain continues to erupt, releasing clouds of volcanic gas and ash skyward, occasionally breaching the 20,000-foot threshold considered to be a significant threat to transcontinental aircraft.

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Deaths Due to Extreme Heat Could Rise by 90% in Manhattan: A Study

Death due to extreme temperatures brought on by climate change could rise as much as 30 percent in Manhattan by the 2080s.

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Slowdown in Global Warming Means Earth May Stay Cooler than Previously Estimated in the Short-term

Despite the seeming widespread effects of climate change, global surface temperatures have warmed little between 1998 to 2008 – a trend, according to a new study, that may reduce predicted warming in the coming decades.

Ixodes scapularis is commonly known as the deer tick or blacklegged tick

May 18, 2013 11:39 AM EDT

Tick Populations 'Absolutely Astronomical' in Ohio and Connecticut

Rising tick populations in the America have reached possible record numbers, with some people reporting seeing more this spring than ever before. The numbers have prompted worry, as ticks carry a number of scary pathogens.

May 17, 2013 03:37 PM EDT

Ongoing Eruption of Alaskan Volcanoes Poses Concern to Air Traffic

A plume of volcanic ash and gas continues to billow from Mt. Pavlof in Alaska; the volcano's ongoing eruption places air traffic in the region at risk of significant obstacles if the ash cloud rises any higher that its current altitude of 20,000 feet above sea level.

The U.S. Arctic LTER greenhouse in peak autumn and early winter.

May 17, 2013 09:49 AM EDT

Carbon Stores In Arctic Soil Surprisingly Unchanged By Warming Climate, Study Says

Because of increased temperatures resulting from climate change, researchers studying carbon sinks in the Arctic -- the world's most rapidly warming biome -- imagined that the region would have transformed from a carbon repository to a carbon emitter. But the research into carbon storage in the Arctic revealed some unexpected revelations about the resiliency of the Arctic ecosystem.

Virunga National Park is Africa's first national park and the continent's oldest World Heritage Site.

May 16, 2013 04:14 PM EDT

WWF Presses Oil Giant Total Not To Drill on World Heritage Site

The World Wildlife Fund is asking French oil giant Total for its assurance that it will keep its operation out of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park.

A climate change activist from Greenpeace dressed in a polar bear costume takes part in an event on the Moscow river, near the Kremlin in Moscow April 1, 2013

May 16, 2013 11:46 AM EDT

Scientific Consensus: Global Warming IS Man-made, Study Says 97% of Climate Scientists Agree [VIDEO]

An analysis of nearly 12,000 scientific research papers done by climate scientists concludes that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are to blame for climate change, with a dissenting view held by less than two percent of scientists.