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In Iran, Cheetahs Collared For The First Time; Critically Endangered Animals To Be Tracked By Scientists
March 2, 2007 — An international team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society working in Iran has successfully fitted two Asiatic cheetahs with Global Positioning System (GPS) collars, marking the ... > full story -
From Icehouse To Hothouse: Melting Ice And Rising Carbon Dioxide Caused Climate Shift
February 20, 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 -
Practice Of Farming Reaches Back Farther Than Thought
February 20, 2007 — Microscopic residues of plants recovered from stone tools that people were using in Panama 3,000 to 7,800 years ago show that people were engaged in the practice of agriculture much earlier than ... > full story -
The Desert Is Dying
February 14, 2007 — Researchers from University of Bergen have found that trees, which are a main resource for desert people and their flocks, are in significant decline in the hyper-arid Eastern Desert of ... > full story -
Floods Cause Feeding And Breeding Frenzy In Australia
February 7, 2007 — Vast flocks of water birds from across Australia will soon start gathering for a long-awaited feeding and breeding frenzy sparked by flooding in western Queensland. The floods will produce a bird ... > full story -
Raindrops Go Ballistic In Research On Soil Erosion
January 18, 2007 — Raindrops can wreak havoc on Earth. They just do it on a microscopic scale. At that scale, raindrops hitting bare ground have nearly the force of a hammer hitting a mound of dirt. What happens when ... > full story -
How Trees Manage Water In Arid Environments
January 3, 2007 — Mountain-top forests in Arizona have survived a three-year period of extreme drought. These conifers have evolved the ability to "turn themselves on" whenever water is available, both in winter when ... > full story -
Experts Advise World Policies To Cope With Causes, Rising Consequences Of Creeping Desertification
December 14, 2006 — About 200 experts from 25 countries are convening in Algiers Dec. 17-19 to advise shifts in world policies needed to cope with the causes and growing consequences of desertification -- a creeping ... > full story -
Asia's Odd-Ball Antelope Gets Collared
October 19, 2006 — A group of scientists led by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) working in Mongolia's windswept Gobi Desert recently fitted high-tech GPS (Global Positioning System) collars on ... > full story -
Dust May Dampen Hurricane Fury
October 10, 2006 — Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, UW-Madison scientists discuss a surprising link between hurricane frequency in the Atlantic and thick clouds of dust that periodically rise from ... > full story
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