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Which Came First, The Moth Or The Cactus?
August 13, 2007 — It's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket -- unless you're a senita moth. Found in the parched Sonoran desert, the moths have a rare, mutually dependent relationship with senita cacti, ... > full story -
Safer Shipping By Predicting Sand Wave Behavior
July 12, 2007 — Dutch researcher Joris van den Berg has developed a mathematical model to predict the movement of sand waves. Sand waves are formed by an interaction between the tidal current and sand. They are ... > full story -
Desertification: UN Experts Prescribe Global Policy Overhaul To Avoid Looming Mass Migrations
June 27, 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 -
Studying Gene Expression Of Desert Fruit Flies
June 22, 2007 — Researchers will study the genetics of fruit flies in desert habitats to determine how they developed the ability to survive under stressful ... > full story -
Severity Of Desertification On World Stage
June 19, 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 -
Sowing Seed On Salty Ground
June 6, 2007 — Salty soil caused by irrigation practices in arid regions has become a major agricultural problem. Scientists investigated a sodium transporter called OsHKT2;1 in the roots of rice plants. Their ... > full story -
Drylands Are Not The Same As Badlands
May 10, 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 13, 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 -
Toward Safer Disposal Of Animals Infected With Mad Cow And Other Prion Diseases
March 19, 2007 — Burying prion-infected carcasses of cattle, deer and other animals in lime may actually enhance the spread of those infectious proteins through soil, a new study suggests. Placing quicklime on ... > 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
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