Desert News

Posted October 9, 2008:

• New Tool Helps Assess Risk Of Desertification

Posted October 8, 2008:

• Beavers: Dam Good For Songbirds

Posted October 3, 2008:

• How 'Sandfish' Swim: Could Help Materials Handling And Process Technology Specialists

Posted September 19, 2008:

• Are Fires More Important Than Rain For The Savannah Ecosystem?

Posted September 18, 2008:

• Serious Disease In Pet Lizards Caused By New Bacteria

Posted September 3, 2008:

• Urbanization Reconfigures Surface Hydrology

Posted August 19, 2008:

• Drier, Warmer Springs In US Southwest Stem From Human-Caused Changes In Winds

Posted July 18, 2008:

• Dust Storms In Sahara Desert Sustain Life In Atlantic Ocean

Posted July 16, 2008:

• Archaeologists Trace Early Irrigation Farming In Ancient Yemen

Posted June 29, 2008:

• Glomalin Is Key To Locking Up Soil Carbon

Posted June 25, 2008:

• Multiple Regions Of Chromosome 8 Found To Be Associated With Different Cancers
• Mars Air Once Had Moisture, New Soil Analysis Says

Posted June 19, 2008:

• Desert Plant May Hold Key To Surviving Food Shortage

Posted June 11, 2008:

• Untapped Energy From Oil Flare-Offs Can Be Used To Release Water Locked In Gypsum

Posted May 13, 2008:

• Fecal Microorganisms Inhabit Sandy Beaches Of Florida

Posted May 6, 2008:

• Farmland Dust Cloud From Ukraine Impact Air Quality As Far As Germany

Posted April 1, 2008:

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

Posted March 27, 2008:

• Small Desert Beetle Found To Engineer Ecosystems

Posted March 4, 2008:

• Rare Oryx Going Into The Wild, To Help Species Recover

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Nanometer-Scale Complexity, Growth, And Diagenesis In Desert Varnish
• Large Source Of Nitrate, A Potential Water Contaminant, Found In Near-Surface Desert Soils

Posted February 27, 2008:

• Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less Water

Posted February 6, 2008:

• Pygmy Dinosaur Inhabited Tropical Islands In Britain's Prehistoric Past

Posted January 7, 2008:

• Overgrazing Accelerating Soil Erosion In Northern Mexico

Posted December 19, 2007:

• Snake Venoms Share Similar Ingredients

Posted December 13, 2007:

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

Posted December 4, 2007:

• Cosmopolitan Microbes: Hitchhikers On Darwin's Dust

Posted October 16, 2007:

• Mars Express: Hummocky And Shallow Maunder Crater

Posted September 19, 2007:

• Why Are Some Groups Of Animals So Diverse?

Posted August 28, 2007:

• Migration of Early Humans From Africa Aided By Wet Weather

Posted August 13, 2007:

• Which Came First, The Moth Or The Cactus?

Posted July 12, 2007:

• Safer Shipping By Predicting Sand Wave Behavior

Posted June 27, 2007:

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

Posted June 22, 2007:

• Studying Gene Expression Of Desert Fruit Flies

Posted June 19, 2007:

• Severity Of Desertification On World Stage

Posted June 6, 2007:

• Sowing Seed On Salty Ground

Posted May 10, 2007:

• Drylands Are Not The Same As Badlands

Posted April 13, 2007:

• Fertilizers Help Zimbabwean Farmers To Increase Crop Yields

Posted March 19, 2007:

• Toward Safer Disposal Of Animals Infected With Mad Cow And Other Prion Diseases

Posted March 5, 2007:

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

Posted March 2, 2007:

• In Iran, Cheetahs Collared For The First Time; Critically Endangered Animals To Be Tracked By Scientists

Posted February 20, 2007:

• From Icehouse To Hothouse: Melting Ice And Rising Carbon Dioxide Caused Climate Shift
• Practice Of Farming Reaches Back Farther Than Thought

Posted February 14, 2007:

• The Desert Is Dying

Posted February 7, 2007:

• Floods Cause Feeding And Breeding Frenzy In Australia

Posted January 18, 2007:

• Raindrops Go Ballistic In Research On Soil Erosion

Posted January 3, 2007:

• How Trees Manage Water In Arid Environments

Posted December 14, 2006:

• Experts Advise World Policies To Cope With Causes, Rising Consequences Of Creeping Desertification

Posted October 19, 2006:

• Asia's Odd-Ball Antelope Gets Collared

Posted October 10, 2006:

• Dust May Dampen Hurricane Fury

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