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Floods Cause Feeding And Breeding Frenzy In Australia
February 7, 2007 — Vast flocks of water birds from across Australia will soon start gathering for a long-awaited feeding and breeding frenzy sparked by flooding in western Queensland. The floods will produce a bird ... > full story -
Enhanced, Drought-Tolerant Maize To Give African Farmers Options, Even With Global Warming
January 29, 2007 — A vital research program that has already had significant impact on the lives of African farmers will accelerate its work for their benefit through the development and deployment of better drought ... > full story -
Annual Plants May Cope With Global Warming Better Than Long-Living Species
January 8, 2007 — Countering Charles Darwin's view that evolution occurs gradually, UC-Irvine scientists have discovered that plants with short life cycles can evolutionally adapt in just a few years to climate ... > full story -
How Trees Manage Water In Arid Environments
January 3, 2007 — Mountain-top forests in Arizona have survived a three-year period of extreme drought. These conifers have evolved the ability to "turn themselves on" whenever water is available, both in winter when ... > full story -
Western Wildfires Linked To Atlantic Ocean Surface Temperatures
December 26, 2006 — Western U.S. wildfires are likely to increase in the coming decades, according to a new tree-ring study led by the University of Comahue in Argentina and involving the University of Colorado at ... > full story -
2006 Is Sixth Warmest Year On Record, Estimates Show
December 18, 2006 — The global mean surface temperature in 2006 is currently estimated to be + 0.42°C above the 1961-1990 annual average (14°C/57.2°F), according to the records maintained by members of the ... > full story -
Lessons Learned From Drought Deaths 40,000 Years Ago
November 28, 2006 — Drought-stricken Australia should heed a warning from a new study that shows a series of massive droughts killed giant kangaroos and other "megafauna" in south-east Queensland 40,000 years ago, ... > full story -
Perennial Wheat Offers Environmental And Other Benefits
November 27, 2006 — Perennial wheat? The possibility is being looked at by a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher. Annual wheat, which is traditionally grown in the Great Plains, is planted in the fall and ... > full story -
Impact Of Climate Change In Africa
November 26, 2006 — Africa is the continent that will suffer most under global warming. Past history gives us lessons on the likely effects of future climate change. Of greatest concern are the "large infrequent ... > full story -
Many Weather Factors Needed For Accurate Climate Change Predictions
November 7, 2006 — Current climate change impact models that consider only one weather variable, such as increasing temperature, sometimes spawn unsubstantiated doomsday predictions, according to researchers at Purdue ... > full story
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