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Drylands Are Not The Same As Badlands
May 10, 2007 — Drylands, where 38 percent of the world's population lives, can be protected from the irreversible damage of desertification if local residents and managers at all levels would follow basic ... > full story -
Brewing A Sustainable Energy Solution
May 2, 2007 — A new project to turn beer wastewater into electricity has won $140,000 from the Queensland Government's Sustainable Energy Innovation Fund in ... > full story -
Drought Limits Tropical Plant Distributions, Scientists Report
May 2, 2007 — Drought tolerance is a critical determinant of tropical plant distributions, scientists report. In a novel coupling of experimental measurements and observed plant distributions across a tropical ... > full story -
Livestock Interventions Can Protect Lives, Livelihoods
April 23, 2007 — Livestock are often a crucial livelihoods asset for communities in Africa, but livestock are vulnerable to drought. Researchers report that counterintuitive measures -- selling livestock -- tested in ... > full story -
Ancient Coral Reef Tells The History Of Kenya's Soil Erosion
April 10, 2007 — Coral reefs, like tree rings, are natural archives of climate change. But oceanic corals also provide a faithful account of how people make use of land through history, says Stanford University ... > full story -
Abrupt Climate Change Far More Common Than Previously Thought
April 7, 2007 — It came on quickly and then lasted nearly two decades, eventually killing more than one million people and affecting 50 million more. All of this makes the Sahel drought, which first struck West ... > full story -
Will Climate Change Kill The Amazon?
April 3, 2007 — Scientists showed key research of a profound impact of global warming. Although intact forests are fairly resistant to climate change, with partial deforestation the entire landscape could become ... > full story -
Discovery Of 'Master Switch' For Communication Between Chloroplast And Nuclei Of Plants
April 2, 2007 — In a study published in Science this week, Nevada scientists explain the process behind a revolutionary discovery in how signals are exchanged between the chloroplast and nucleus of ... > full story -
Tomatoes Grow Well In Diluted Seawater And Produce More Natural Antioxidants
March 19, 2007 — With critical water shortages looming in some parts of the world, scientists in Italy are reporting that diluted seawater can be used to grow tomatoes and actually results in fruit with significantly ... > full story -
La Nina May Soon Arrive
February 28, 2007 — On the heels of El Nino, its opposite, La Nina may soon arrive. In a weekly update, scientists at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center noted that as the 2006-2007 El Nino faded, surface and subsurface ... > full story
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