Desert News

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Kalahari Desert Sands An Important, Forgotten Storehouse of Carbon Dioxide

Posted March 31, 2008:

• Small Desert Beetle Found To Engineer Ecosystems

Posted March 4, 2008:

• Nanometer-scale Complexity, Growth, And Diagenesis In Desert Varnish

Posted March 3, 2008:

• Large Source Of Nitrate, A Potential Water Contaminant, Found In Near-surface Desert Soils

Posted March 2, 2008:

• Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less Water

Posted January 8, 2008:

• Overgrazing Accelerating Soil Erosion In Northern Mexico

Posted December 14, 2007:

• Tiny Dust Particles From Asian Deserts Common Over Western United States

Posted June 28, 2007:

• Desertification: UN Experts Prescribe Global Policy Overhaul To Avoid Looming Mass Migrations

Posted June 20, 2007:

• Severity Of Desertification On World Stage

Posted May 11, 2007:

• Drylands Are Not The Same As Badlands

Posted April 14, 2007:

• Fertilizers Help Zimbabwean Farmers To Increase Crop Yields

Posted March 5, 2007:

• Tunisia's Arid Regions: How Can Desertification Control And Development Be Reconciled?

Posted February 27, 2007:

• From Icehouse To Hothouse: Melting Ice And Rising Carbon Dioxide Caused Climate Shift

Posted February 14, 2007:

• The Desert Is Dying

Posted February 8, 2007:

• Floods Cause Feeding And Breeding Frenzy In Australia

Posted January 18, 2007:

• Raindrops Go Ballistic In Research On Soil Erosion

Posted January 9, 2007:

• How Trees Manage Water In Arid Environments

Posted October 11, 2006:

• Dust May Dampen Hurricane Fury

Posted September 18, 2006:

• Team Describes Unique Desert Cloud Forest

Posted August 9, 2006:

• Landscapes And Human Behavior

Posted August 7, 2006:

• Ancient Bison Teeth Provide Window On Past Great Plains Climate, Vegetation

Posted July 23, 2006:

• El Niño Phenomenon Could Help Reforest Semi-arid Regions

Posted July 5, 2006:

• Was There Life On Mars? Shiny Rock Coating May Hold The Answer

Posted June 19, 2006:

• Human Activities In Arid Urban Environments Can Affect Rainfall And Water Cycle

Posted June 9, 2006:

• Gazelles Shrink Liver And Heart To Reduce Oxygen Consumption During Drought

Posted June 5, 2006:

• Understanding And Predicting Desertification: Researchers Offer New Insights On Arid, Semiarid Landscapes

Posted May 26, 2006:

• Microbes Hitchhike Across Atlantic On Desert Dust

Posted May 8, 2006:

• Where Have All The Butterflies Gone?

Posted April 10, 2006:

• Soggy Sands Of Mars?

Posted March 4, 2006:

• Largest Crater In The Great Sahara Discovered By Boston University Scientists

Posted January 25, 2006:

• In Bacterial Diversity, Amazon Is A 'Desert'; Desert Is An 'Amazon'

Posted November 8, 2005:

• Methane Found In Desert Soils Bolsters Theories That Life Could Exist On Mars

Posted October 31, 2005:

• Tracking Desertification With Satellites

Posted October 21, 2005:

• Space Concepts Improve Life In The Desert

Posted August 12, 2005:

• Carnegie Mellon Rover Heads to Atacama Desert in Chile For Final Mission in Three-Year Search for Life

Posted May 11, 2005:

• Satellites Monitoring Dust Storms Linked To Health Risk

Posted April 14, 2005:

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

Posted April 13, 2005:

• Study Indicates Thirsty Plants Keep Deserts' Subsurface Dry

Posted February 1, 2005:

• Physicists Discover Temperature Key To Avalanche Movement

Posted January 27, 2005:

• Desertification Alters Regional Ecosystem Climate Interactions

Posted January 13, 2005:

• OSU Researchers Helping China Reduce Soil Erosion

Posted December 21, 2004:

• High-flying Observatory Reveals Land Changing To Desert

Posted November 22, 2004:

• Not Finding Life? Dig Deeper.
• Space Sentinels Track Desertification On Mediterranean Shores

Posted November 8, 2004:

• Tumbleweeds Good For Uranium Clean-Up

Posted September 1, 2004:

• Analysis Fingers Causes Of Desertification

Posted August 10, 2004:

• Early Humans Adapted Well To Different Climates And Vegetation Types

Posted June 15, 2004:

• All Ecosystems Are Equally Productive Under Drought Conditions

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