Highaltitude

Climate change could turn high-altitude areas into wildlife refuges

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Heatmaps of historical (1970–1999) and predicted (2070–2098) changes in Shannon’s diversity index over the nine elevation ranges studied. Credit: Geophysical research letters (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024GL109483 As climate change progresses, its effects are not universally uniform, with temperatures increasing at different latitudes and altitudes. Climate heterogeneity is the study of this diversity in Earth’s climate patterns, … Read more

High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields fossil of Denisovan

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Enlarge / The Baishiya Karst Cave, where the recently analyzed samples were obtained. Group of Dongju Zhang (Lanzhou University) For over a century, we’ve had the opportunity to study Neanderthals: their bones, the stuff they left behind, their spread across Eurasia. When we finally sequenced their genome and discovered that we shared a genetic legacy … Read more