Desert News

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

Posted April 2, 2003:

• Carnegie Mellon, NASA To Develop Robot Illustrating How To Seek Life On Distant Planets

Posted April 1, 2003:

• Vegetation Essential To Balancing Climate Models; Climate Change 6,000 Years Ago In Sahara Desert Explained By MIT Scientists

Posted February 20, 2003:

• New Age For Mungo Man, New Human History

Posted February 13, 2003:

• Ground Temperature Aids In Measuring Water Levels

Posted December 17, 2002:

• Researchers Uncover Extreme Lake -- And 3000-Year-Old Microbes -- In Mars-Like Antarctic Environment

Posted July 12, 2002:

• Measuring Earthshine: How New Terra Data Are Improving Weather And Climate Forecast Models

Posted May 27, 2002:

• Mountain Streams With Rhythm?

Posted May 17, 2002:

• Buffelgrass, An Invader Fueling Wildfires In The Sonoran Desert

Posted January 14, 2002:

• Pondering A Climate Conundrum In Antarctica; Unique, Distinct Cooling Trend Discovered On Earth's Southernmost Continent

Posted September 27, 2001:

• Bacterial Communities Found To Follow Water

Posted September 20, 2001:

• New Computer Model Tracks And Predicts Paths Of Earth's Dust

Posted September 5, 2001:

• Multiple Evolutionary "Jumps" Drive Drosophila Diversification, University Of Arkansas Researcher Finds

Posted August 30, 2001:

• Balls Stick, Shoes Slide: Serving Up Tennis Court Physics

Posted July 23, 2001:

• Texas Tortoise And Cattle Can Co-Exist

Posted July 16, 2001:

• Scripps Researchers Unveil The First Comprehensive Wildfire Forecast For The Western United States

Posted July 12, 2001:

• Soil Suggests Early Humans Lived In Forests Instead Of Grasslands

Posted June 15, 2001:

• Microbes And The Dust They Ride In On Pose Potential Health Risks

Posted May 15, 2001:

• Droughts Aggravated By Dust In The Wind

Posted March 8, 2001:

• "Robo-Scorpion" Based On Biologically Derived Design Principles

Posted February 21, 2001:

• Anthropologist Examines The Power Of Water On Earth's Earliest Civilizations

Posted February 5, 2001:

• Tallgrass Prairies May Provide Early Warning Of Climate Change

Posted February 2, 2001:

• Archaeologist Finds Arizona's Ancient Hohokam Was Complex, Advanced Culture That May Have Reached The West Coast

Posted January 25, 2001:

• Horizontal Strain Critical To Characterizing Aquifer Properties And To Understanding Land Subsidence

Posted December 1, 2000:

• Peru's Nasca Lines Point To Water Sources, Suggest UMass Researchers

Posted November 19, 2000:

• Bilbies Invade Central Australia

Posted August 11, 2000:

• Spy Satellite Photos Document Desert Plant Invasion

Posted February 28, 2000:

• Urban Sprawl Reduces Annual Photosynthetic Production

Posted February 18, 2000:

• Fossil Plants' Ties To Ancient Carbon Redefined

Posted December 17, 1999:

• Researchers Seek Answers To Combat World’s Stressed Freshwater Supply

Posted November 18, 1999:

• To Survive Their Harsh Environment, Desert Bees Hedge Their Bets With A Wait-And-Wet Attitude, Cornell Researcher Discovers

Posted September 22, 1999:

• Newly Released Satellite Images Of Antarctica A Valuable Scientific Benchmark

Posted August 10, 1999:

• Researcher Reports That Invasive Grass Destroys Soil Nitrogen, Depletes Native Desert Plants

Posted July 12, 1999:

• Sahara's Abrupt Desertification Started By Changes In Earth's Orbit, Accelerated By Atmospheric And Vegetation Feedbacks

Posted June 7, 1999:

• Jet Stream Studied In West African Drought

Posted May 17, 1999:

• Scientists Use Fossilized Emu Eggshells To Discern Changes In Vegetation, Provide Additional Evidence Of Human Impact On Australian Landscape

Posted March 11, 1999:

• Deserts Still Damaged 30 Years After Minimal Disturbance

Posted February 19, 1999:

• Surveyor Spacecraft Spots Bright Sand Dunes On Mars That Researchers Speculate Could Be Mounds Of Sulfates

Posted February 11, 1999:

• Coastal Birds "Feel" Their Prey Under The Sand

Posted April 21, 1998:

• Purdue Herbarium -- A Noah's Ark

Posted March 26, 1998:

• Stone 'Jigsaw Puzzles' Yield Clues About Mysterious Saharan Nomads

Posted January 7, 1998:

• New Study Shows Dinosaurs From Gobi Desert Site Killed In Sudden "Sand Slides" Falling From Dunes Study Also Reports First Dinosaur Tracks From Gobi

Posted October 17, 1997:

• Limits Of Life On Earth: Are They The Key To Life On Other Planets?

Posted August 6, 1997:

• Remote Control Robot Breaks Rough Terrain Travel Record, Paves Path For Future Planetary Science Missions

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