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Building Better Barley: Improving Selection Efficiency for More Water-Efficient Varieties
December 12, 2012 — By studying the carbon isotope compositions of barley plants and their relationship with water-use efficiency, researchers have developed tools that plant breeders can use to improve selection ... > full story -
Violence in Mali Threatening Survival of Endangered Elephants
December 12, 2012 — Researchers have revealed the secrets of survival of an endangered population of African elephant in the unforgiving Sahara desert. The elephants have the biggest range in the world, the study ... > full story -
Drought in the Horn of Africa Delays Migrating Birds
December 6, 2012 — The catastrophic drought last year in the Horn of Africa affected millions of people but also caused the extremely late arrival into northern Europe of several migratory songbird species, a new study ... > full story -
Plant Stress Paints Early Picture of Drought
December 5, 2012 — In July 2012, farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Plains regions watched crops wilt and die after a stretch of unusually low precipitation and high temperatures. Before a lack of rain and record-breaking ... > full story -
Prioritizing Rather Than Canvassing Entire Plant Genome May Lead to Improved Crops
December 4, 2012 — A genetics study shows promise in feeding the world in spite of heat and ... > full story -
Researchers Debut Revolutionary Biosphere Mapping Capability
December 4, 2012 — Researchers from the Carnegie Institution are rolling out results from the new Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System, or AToMS, for the first time at the American Geophysical Union meetings in San ... > full story -
Increasing Drought Stress Challenges Vulnerable Hydraulic System of Plants, Professor Finds
November 27, 2012 — The hydraulic system of trees is so finely-tuned that predicted increases in drought due to climate change may lead to catastrophic failure in many species. A recent paper finds that those systems in ... > full story -
Extreme Weather Preceded Collapse of Ancient Maya Civilization
November 8, 2012 — Decades of extreme weather crippled, and ultimately decimated, first the political culture and later the human population of the ancient Maya, according to a new ... > full storyMore: -
2001-2002 Drought Helped Propel Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic
November 5, 2012 — A new study shows for the first time that episodes of reduced precipitation in the southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-02 drought, greatly accelerated development of the mountain ... > full story -
UK Butterfly Populations Threatened by Extreme Drought and Landscape Fragmentation
November 1, 2012 — A new study has found that the sensitivity and recovery of UK butterfly populations to extreme drought is affected by the overall area and degree of fragmentation of key habitat types in the ... > full story
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