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Droughts Aggravated By Dust In The Wind
May 15, 2001 — Windblown desert dust can choke rain clouds, cutting rainfall hundreds of miles away. This new discovery, made with the help of NASA satellites, suggests that droughts over arid regions, such as ... > full story -
Household Ant Invasions Are Determined By Weather, Not Pesticide Use, New Study Finds
April 27, 2001 — Using bug spray, bait and other household pesticides to prevent ant invasions is futile, according to a new study by Stanford researchers to be published in the journal American Midland ... > full story -
NASA Demonstrates How Earth's Global Heat Engine Drives Plant Growth
April 12, 2001 — Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have assembled the first long-term global data set that demonstrates the connection between changing patterns of sea surface temperature and ... > full story -
Rockefeller Researchers Identify Defense System In Plants; Protein Found To Confer Resistance To Drought
April 3, 2001 — Researchers at The Rockefeller University have discovered that an experimental plant may harbor an additional line of defense against drought, once it has left the safety of its seed. The work ... > full story -
Deep Green Spawns Deep Gene And Deep Time To Continue Work Toward A Complete Tree Of Life For The Green Plants
February 20, 2001 — The highly successful Deep Green project to construct a "tree of life" for the green plants has ended, but it has seeded new projects to strengthen the branches and root the tree more firmly ... > full story -
Scientists Make Rain In Mexico
January 23, 2001 — Producing more rain by seeding clouds may no longer be wishful thinking. After many failed attempts by scientists to duplicate cloud-seeding experiments, a team from the National Center ... > full story -
Researchers Study Oldest Oak East Of The Mississippi
November 3, 2000 — Studies of a 373-year-old white oak found in an Ohio old-growth forest suggest it is the oldest recorded hardwood east of the Mississippi. But while this ranking is exciting to the researchers ... > full story -
University Of Texas Austin Biologist Develops New Evidence For Global Warming
October 10, 2000 — Dr. Camille Parmesan, an assistant professor of biology at The University of Texas at Austin and an expert on non-migratory butterfly species, has worked with world climate experts to document new ... > full story -
Himalayan Ice Reveals Climate Warming, Catastrophic Drought
September 19, 2000 — Ice cores drilled through a glacier more than four miles up in the Himalayan Mountains have yielded a highly detailed record of the last 1,000 years of earth's climate in the high Tibetan ... > full story -
Study Provides Direct Evidence Of Cannibalism In The Southwest
September 13, 2000 — The first evidence of human tissue in prehistoric human waste dating back about 850 years shows that people of southwestern Colorado engaged in cannibalism during a long drought, according to a new ... > full story
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