December 18th, 2009
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“Southern Arizona has been getting hotter and drier for the last 25 or 30 years,” says D. Lawrence Venable, a director of research at the University of Arizona, “and as a result, the desert annuals we’ve been studying…have been changing.” Some of the changes, however, are not the sort that researchers expected.
Cold-loving flowers, they have found, are gaining an edge in the Sonoran Desert…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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