Drought Research News

Posted February 27, 2008:

• Gene That Controls Ozone Resistance Of Plants Could Lead To Drought-Resistant Crops

Posted February 20, 2008:

• Busy Beavers Can Help Ease Drought

Posted February 12, 2008:

• Lake Mead, Key Water Source For Southwestern US, Could Be Dry By 2021

Posted January 23, 2008:

• Nitrogen Fixation Process In Plants To Combat Drought In Various Species Of Legumes

Posted December 30, 2007:

• 2007 A Top Ten Warm Year For U.S. And Globe

Posted December 10, 2007:

• Smaller Storms Drop Larger Overall Rainfall In Hurricane Season

Posted November 8, 2007:

• 'Hot Spots' The Key To Controlling European Carp In Australia

Posted November 7, 2007:

• New 'Raider Amethyst' Prairie Verbena: Conserves Water, Drought-Tolerant

Posted October 27, 2007:

• Land Clearing Triggers Hotter Droughts, Australian Research Shows

Posted October 24, 2007:

• Massive California Fires Consistent With Climate Change, Experts Say

Posted October 15, 2007:

• After Drought, Diversity Dries Up And Ponds All Look The Same

Posted October 10, 2007:

• Warm Winter Predicted For United States

Posted September 23, 2007:

• Amazon Forest Shows Unexpected Resiliency During Drought

Posted September 10, 2007:

• Hardy Rice: Less Water, More Food

Posted August 20, 2007:

• High Temperatures, Low Precipitation Creating Many Problems

Posted July 27, 2007:

• Researcher Studies Proteins That Make Rice Flourish

Posted July 19, 2007:

• Satellite Data Can Warn Of Famine, NASA Researchers Find

Posted July 8, 2007:

• Genetically Engineered Maize Is Resistant To Maize Streak Virus

Posted June 11, 2007:

• Vets Seeing More Horses With Nutritional Issues This Year

Posted May 17, 2007:

• Colorado River Streamflow History Reveals Megadrought Before 1490

Posted May 2, 2007:

• Drought Limits Tropical Plant Distributions, Scientists Report

Posted April 23, 2007:

• Livestock Interventions Can Protect Lives, Livelihoods

Posted April 7, 2007:

• Abrupt Climate Change Far More Common Than Previously Thought

Posted April 3, 2007:

• Will Climate Change Kill The Amazon?

Posted April 2, 2007:

• Discovery Of 'Master Switch' For Communication Between Chloroplast And Nuclei Of Plants

Posted March 19, 2007:

• Tomatoes Grow Well In Diluted Seawater And Produce More Natural Antioxidants

Posted February 18, 2007:

• U.S. Needs To Plan For Climate Change-Induced Summer Droughts

Posted February 13, 2007:

• NASA Study Finds Warmer Future Could Bring Droughts

Posted February 7, 2007:

• Floods Cause Feeding And Breeding Frenzy In Australia

Posted January 29, 2007:

• Enhanced, Drought-Tolerant Maize To Give African Farmers Options, Even With Global Warming

Posted January 8, 2007:

• Annual Plants May Cope With Global Warming Better Than Long-Living Species

Posted November 28, 2006:

• Lessons Learned From Drought Deaths 40,000 Years Ago

Posted November 27, 2006:

• Perennial Wheat Offers Environmental And Other Benefits

Posted November 26, 2006:

• Impact Of Climate Change In Africa

Posted September 18, 2006:

• Droughts & Reservoirs: Finding Storage Space Underground

Posted September 14, 2006:

• Drought As The 'New Normal'

Posted July 16, 2006:

• Nurseries To Give Big-City Test To Cloned Trees

Posted May 29, 2006:

• Historic Colorado River Streamflows Reconstructed Back To 1490

Posted May 17, 2006:

• Water Shortages In Northeast Linked To Human Activity

Posted May 5, 2006:

• 'Amplification' Strategy May Be Key to Combating West Nile Virus

Posted April 12, 2006:

• Disease-Impact Models May Rely On Incorrect Assumptions

Posted April 4, 2006:

• Western Prairies Face Impending Water Crisis

Posted March 27, 2006:

• Sequencing The Rice Genome Could Help Mitigate Impact Of Climate Change On World's Poor

Posted March 6, 2006:

• Disease Damages Wheat Roots, Thwarts Water Uptake

Posted January 8, 2006:

• Don't Blame The Big Bad Wolf

Posted December 16, 2005:

• Warmer 2005 For U.S., Near-Record Warmth Globally -- Hurricanes, Floods, Snow And Wildfires All Notable

Posted December 13, 2005:

• Anyway You Slice It, Tomatoes Cut Through Drought With New Gene

Posted December 9, 2005:

• New Models Of Weather Pattern

Posted December 5, 2005:

• Tropical Atlantic Cooling And African Deforestation Correlate To Drought, Report Scientists

Posted October 11, 2005:

• Underlying Cause Of Massive Pinyon Pine Die-Off Revealed

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