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  Tracking Desertification With Satellites

  October 31, 2005 — With a quarter of the Earth's land surface affected, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification regards desertification as a worldwide problem. Delegates from the 170-plus signatories to ... > full story
• Desert
  Space Station
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  Space Concepts Improve Life In The Desert

  October 21, 2005 — An innovative tent, developed with the use of space concepts, is now on display at the 'SAFE: Design On Risk' exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Designed for desert use, it exploits ... > full story
• Mars
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  Carnegie Mellon Rover Heads to Atacama Desert in Chile For Final Mission in Three-Year Search for Life

  August 10, 2005 — Carnegie Mellon researchers and their colleagues from NASA's Ames Research Center, the universities of Tennessee, Arizona and Iowa, as well as Chilean researchers at Universidad Catolica del Norte ... > full story
• Robotics
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  Carnegie Mellon's Sandstorm Robot Makes Unprecedented 200-Mile Autonomous Run

  July 12, 2005 — Carnegie Mellon University's Sandstorm robot drove an unprecedented 200 miles in seven hours without human guidance in preparation for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, a 175-mile driverless desert ... > full story
• Mars
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  Life Detection Instrument Passes Key Test On Road To Mars

  June 29, 2005 — Chosen to fly in 2011 as part of the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission, an instrument designed at UC Berkeley will look for an indisputable signature of life: the tendency of life-based amino ... > full story
• Mars
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  Traces Of Stowaway Earth Algae Could Survive On Mars, Study Finds

  June 7, 2005 — Some hardy Earth microbes could survive long enough on Mars to complicate the search for alien life, according to a new study co-authored by University of Florida ... > full story
• Storms
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  Satellites Monitoring Dust Storms Linked To Health Risk

  May 11, 2005 — Medical researchers are using satellites to track massive dust storms blowing across Africa's Sahel belt. The aim is to learn more about lethal meningitis epidemics that often follow in the dust's ... > full story
• Storms
  Severe Weather
  Earth Science
  Air Pollution
  Climate
  Global Warming
   

  Dust To Dust: Particles Could Affect Entire Earth, Paper Says

  April 13, 2005 — You probably consider those dust particles that make you sneeze and wheeze a nuisance, but those tiny pieces of matter could potentially affect the world’s climate, its oceans and even the food ... > full story
• Water
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  Study Indicates Thirsty Plants Keep Deserts' Subsurface Dry

  April 13, 2005 — Desert blooms -- plants that flourish in arid areas after rains -- might reduce water accumulation in soil should the climate shift toward wetter conditions, according to a study conducted by a team ... > full story
• Pests and Parasites
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  Stealth Worms May Improve Insect Pest Control

  March 9, 2005 — Nematodes comprise a worm family so large it literally covers the earth. They range in size from less than a micron in length to as much as 26 feet. Worldwide interest has begun to focus on ... > full story

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