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Farmland Dust Cloud From Ukraine Impact Air Quality As Far As Germany
Fallow agricultural land and
steppe-formation processes
are evidently capable of
having a much greater effect
on global air quality than
... > full story
Kalahari Desert Sands An Important, Forgotten Storehouse of Carbon Dioxide
The sands of the desert are
an important and forgotten
storehouse of carbon dioxide
taken from the world's
atmosphere. Sands like those
... > full story
Large Source Of Nitrate, A Potential Water Contaminant, Found In Near-surface Desert Soils
Soils under desert pavement
have an unusually high
concentration of nitrate, a
type of salt, close to the
surface. Vulnerable to
... > full story
Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less Water
An ability to avoid the
plant equivalent of vapor
lock and a favorable
evolutionary history may
explain the unusual drought
resistance of junipers, some
varieties of which are now
... > full story
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Small Desert Beetle Found To Engineer Ecosystems
March 31, 2008 — A tiny beetle is wreaking catastrophic action on the deteriorating Chihuahuan ... > full story -
Nanometer-scale Complexity, Growth, And Diagenesis In Desert Varnish
March 4, 2008 — Finely layered coatings, rich in manganese and iron and commonly called desert varnish, are common on rocks in desert environments worldwide. These coatings have been the subject of intense ... > full story -
Overgrazing Accelerating Soil Erosion In Northern Mexico
January 8, 2008 — In the countries of the South, erosion is a process often exacerbated by the high rainfall that affects these regions during the wet season. Recent research conducted in Mexico has led to better ... > full story -
Tiny Dust Particles From Asian Deserts Common Over Western United States
December 14, 2007 — Dust from the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts in China and Mongolia is routinely present in the air over the western United States during spring months, a researcher has found. He found that in years ... > full story -
Desertification: UN Experts Prescribe Global Policy Overhaul To Avoid Looming Mass Migrations
June 28, 2007 — Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents "the greatest environmental challenge of our times" and governments must overhaul policy approaches to the issue or face mass migrations of ... > full story -
Severity Of Desertification On World Stage
June 20, 2007 — Desertification puts the health and well-being of more than 1.2 billion people in more than 100 countries at risk, according to the United Nations. Because dryland desertification can be remedied or ... > full story -
Drylands Are Not The Same As Badlands
May 11, 2007 — Drylands, where 38 percent of the world's population lives, can be protected from the irreversible damage of desertification if local residents and managers at all levels would follow basic ... > full story -
Fertilizers Help Zimbabwean Farmers To Increase Crop Yields
April 14, 2007 — A little bit of manure and fertilizer can considerably improve the perspectives of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers in semi-arid regions. Nitrogen availability was found to be the factor that most ... > full story -
Tunisia's Arid Regions: How Can Desertification Control And Development Be Reconciled?
March 5, 2007 — A team of sociologists, hydrologists, economists, ecologists and pastoralists of IRD studied the interactions between local societies and their environment at different temporal and spatial scales in ... > full story -
From Icehouse To Hothouse: Melting Ice And Rising Carbon Dioxide Caused Climate Shift
February 27, 2007 — Three hundred million years ago, Earth's climate shifted dramatically from icehouse to hothouse, with major environmental consequences. That shift was the result of both rising atmospheric carbon ... > full story
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