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Scientists are turning their attention to how global warming affects plant life. They suspect that there will be less nutrition in vegetables that are grown in the future, due to climate change. But some scientists wonder if there will even BE any vegetables in the future, since global warming affects pollination.

Dr. David Inouye, who studied 30 years of data on pollination in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, says, “High altitudes are one of the habitats where it seems that climate change is having dramatic effects?The timing of flowering has become earlier, particularly since 1998, the abundance of some flowers has changed, and the synchrony of plants and pollinators may be changing.”
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There may be a new KIND of volcano around. And we now know that volcanoes “sing,” as a kind of warning, when they’re about to erupt.

Sara Goudarzi writes in LiveScience.com that volcanoes that have erupted on the ocean floor in the western Pacific could be a new type, never seen before. Most volcanoes erupt when the earth?s tectonic plates move AWAY from each other, but sometimes eruptions occur when the plates move towards each other. These volcanic eruptions weren’t caused by either of these things. Instead, they erupted when one plate moved underneath the other. When volcanoes erupt on the ocean floor, there may be a chance that they could produce a tsunami (giant wave), just as an earthquake on the floor of the ocean did recently in Indonesia.
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A few months ago, we put up a story saying that being grumpy is good because grumpy old folks live longer. This contradicted an earlier story saying that people get nicer as they get older. It turns out that grumpy people be less likely to become victims of dementia as they age?in fact, being disagreeable now may predict increased intelligence later in life.

Previous investigations of this studied mainly young adults, but a new study compared both young and older adults, whose ages ranged from 19 to 89 and who had similar personality traits, in order to try to determine what personality traits predict intelligence. The conclusion, alas, is that grumpy is good.

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Satellite measurements reveal that Greenland’s glaciers aremelting three times faster than expected just two years ago.The melting of Greenland’s glaciers floods the NorthAtlantic with fresh water, which increases the speed withwhich water temperatures change, meaning that the AtlanticConveyor, which draws warm tropical water into the Arcticand keeps the Gulf Stream flowing, is compromised and theGulf Stream is liable to stop flowing.

As we reportedlast December, the Gulf Stream is weakening dramatically,and this latest result could be an indication that it willstop much sooner than expected. Just a few years ago,scientists were predicting that Global Warming would notinterrupt the flow of the Gulf Stream for at least 30 years.
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