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Located near the equator, its climate is hot and humid in the Congo River basin, but cooler and drier in the highlands to the south and east. Congo's economy was one of the most developed and diversified in sub- ...
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Rainforest Biogeography
This linkage seems to have been broken by about 30 million years ago, as global climates became cooler and drier, but the closer common heritage between the African and ...
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Congo, Democratic Republic of the Geography 2000 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
Climate: tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands; north of Equator - wet ... part of the country (most of those refugees were repatriated in November and December 1996) Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered ...
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K4 Modules: Biomes
Temperate forests are found between Earth's poles and the tropics. They are in parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. These forests are cooler and drier than tropical forests. The climate in temperate forests goes through four seasons. There is a warm summer season, a cold winter season, and two ...
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Cold disorders: Cold diuresis, allergy, frostnip, frostbite, hypothermia, cardiocascular effects, influenza, asthma.
Cardiovascular disorders Common cold and influenza Diabetes, winter asthma Raynaud's disease Frostnip, ... wind replaces the hot and humid air near your skin with cooler and drier air. More sweat can evaporate and cool your body. In winter you don't want this effect. You want the air near your skin to stay and ...
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Dining & Restaurants in San Jose, CA | Vietnamese restaurants
It's cooler and drier here and therefore doesn't have the abundance of produce of the rest of country. The food is generally saltier and often makes ...
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Global Warming and the Kyoto Protocol
Without it, the earth would be about 60 degrees cooler than it is today, and life as we know it would be impossible.2 However, human activities ... hotter and drier, while others actually experience colder weather. Other predicted effects of global warming include melting of the polar ice caps, flooding of coastlines, severe storms, changes in precipitation patterns, and ...
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CPC - Outreach: NOAA Climate Press Releases
Cooler And Wetter Than Average In October 10/20/06 - NASA And NOAA Announce Antarctic Ozone Hole Is A Record Breaker 10/16/06 - U.S. Has Cooler ... Tied For Busiest On Record 10/13/05 - September Warmer and Drier Than Average Across U.S., Warmest September Globally Since ... Research Defined At Science Workshop 11/14/02 - OCTOBER 2002: Cooler And Wetter Than Normal Throughout Much Of The Nation; Weather ...
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Wildfire History and Ecology on the Colorado Plateau
The much wetter and cooler spruce-fir forests atop the highest mountains and plateaus of the region ... s forests and resulting in many damaging ecological effects. Forests with historically frequent, low-intensity fires were those initially most affected. Pinyon-juniper woodlands, ponderosa pine forests, and drier mixed ...
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The Ice Age (Pleistocene Epoch) | Gulf Coast Geology | Educator and Student Resources | Gulf of Mexico Program | US EPA
The latter are thought to produce glacial advances, because the cooler summers are not ... forests, and finally mixed deciduous forests. Approximately 18,000 years ago, when the Wisconsin stage glaciers were at their maximum southern extent, the Gulf Coast climate was colder and drier. The ...
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