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Kalahari Desert Sands An Important, Forgotten Storehouse of Carbon Dioxide
April 1, 2008 — The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world's atmosphere. Sands like those in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana are full of cyanobacteria. ... > full story -
Small Desert Beetle Found To Engineer Ecosystems
March 27, 2008 — A tiny beetle is wreaking catastrophic action on the deteriorating Chihuahuan ... > full story -
Rare Oryx Going Into The Wild, To Help Species Recover
March 4, 2008 — A male scimitar-horned oryx from the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center is playing an important role in ensuring the species does not vanish from the planet. Oryx are a ... > full story -
Nanometer-Scale Complexity, Growth, And Diagenesis In Desert Varnish
February 29, 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 -
Large Source Of Nitrate, A Potential Water Contaminant, Found In Near-Surface Desert Soils
February 29, 2008 — Soils under desert pavement have an unusually high concentration of nitrate, a type of salt, close to the surface. Vulnerable to erosion by rain and wind if the desert pavement is disrupted, this ... > full story -
Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less Water
February 27, 2008 — 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 spreading rapidly ... > full story -
Pygmy Dinosaur Inhabited Tropical Islands In Britain's Prehistoric Past
February 6, 2008 — The celebrated Bristol Dinosaur, Thecodontosaurus, has now been shown to live on subtropical islands around Bristol, instead of in a desert on the mainland as previously thought. This new research ... > full story -
Overgrazing Accelerating Soil Erosion In Northern Mexico
January 7, 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 -
Snake Venoms Share Similar Ingredients
December 19, 2007 — Venoms from different snake families may have many deadly ingredients in common, more than was previously thought. A new study has unexpectedly discovered three-finger toxins in a subspecies of the ... > full story -
Tiny Dust Particles From Asian Deserts Common Over Western United States
December 13, 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
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