Desert News

Posted October 2, 2006:

• Evolutionary Tug-of-War Decides Which Sex Provides Care

Posted September 25, 2006:

• Mosquitoes' Sweet Tooth Could Be Answer To Eliminating Malaria

Posted September 12, 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 21, 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 4, 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 15, 2006:

• How Did Cactuses Evolve?

Posted May 8, 2006:

• Where Have All The Butterflies Gone?
• Titan's Seas Are Sand, Cassini's Images Of Saturn's Moon Show

Posted April 9, 2006:

• Soggy Sands Of Mars?

Posted April 4, 2006:

• Clues To African Archaeology Found In Lead Isotopes

Posted March 3, 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 December 26, 2005:

• Ancient Trans-Atlantic Swarm Brought Locusts To The New World

Posted November 7, 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 10, 2005:

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

Posted July 12, 2005:

• Carnegie Mellon's Sandstorm Robot Makes Unprecedented 200-Mile Autonomous Run

Posted June 29, 2005:

• Life Detection Instrument Passes Key Test On Road To Mars

Posted June 7, 2005:

• Traces Of Stowaway Earth Algae Could Survive On Mars, Study Finds

Posted May 11, 2005:

• Satellites Monitoring Dust Storms Linked To Health Risk

Posted April 13, 2005:

• Dust To Dust: Particles Could Affect Entire Earth, Paper Says
• Study Indicates Thirsty Plants Keep Deserts' Subsurface Dry

Posted March 9, 2005:

• Stealth Worms May Improve Insect Pest Control

Posted January 31, 2005:

• Physicists Discover Temperature Key To Avalanche Movement

Posted January 25, 2005:

• Desertification Alters Regional Ecosystem Climate Interactions

Posted January 11, 2005:

• OSU Researchers Helping China Reduce Soil Erosion

Posted December 20, 2004:

• High-Flying Observatory Reveals Land Changing To Desert

Posted December 8, 2004:

• Scientists Uncover Clues To The Mystery Of 'Gene Deserts'

Posted November 22, 2004:

• Not Finding Life? Dig Deeper.
• Helping Cotton Thrive In The Heat

Posted November 21, 2004:

• 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 14, 2004:

• All Ecosystems Are Equally Productive Under Drought Conditions

Posted February 12, 2004:

• Bighorn Sheep Threatened By Climate Change

Posted January 14, 2004:

• Mars On Earth? Researchers Find Mars-Like Conditions In A South American Desert

Posted December 22, 2003:

• Desert Dust Enables Algae To Grow

Posted December 9, 2003:

• NCAR Model Shows Decrease In Global Dust By 2100

Posted October 12, 2003:

• New Study Ties African Drought To Ocean Temperatures

Posted September 30, 2003:

• Scientists Estimate Risk Of Raven Predation On Desert Tortoises

Posted August 7, 2003:

• NASA Working To Take The Guesswork Out Of Long-Term Drought Prediction

Posted May 9, 2003:

• Greenhouse Gas Might Green Up The Desert; Weizmann Institute Study Suggests That Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Might Cause Forests To Spread Into Dry Environments

Search ScienceDaily