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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 -
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
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