Drought News

Posted October 5, 2004:

• How Roots Control Plant Shoots: Biologists Discover Gene That Helps Roots Limit Leaf Growth

Posted August 20, 2004:

• Plumbing Trees' Plumbing Reveals Their Engineering Skill

Posted August 1, 2004:

• Droughts Like 1930s Dust Bowl May Have Been Unexceptional In Prehistoric Times, New Study Suggests

Posted June 14, 2004:

• All Ecosystems Are Equally Productive Under Drought Conditions

Posted May 19, 2004:

• Distant Mountains Influence River Levels 50 Years Later

Posted March 19, 2004:

• NASA Explains 'Dust Bowl' Drought

Posted March 10, 2004:

• Research Links Long Droughts In U.S. To Ocean Temperature Variations

Posted February 16, 2004:

• Duke Open-Air Experiment Results Could Deflate Hopes That Forests Can Alleviate Global Warming

Posted January 29, 2004:

• Pacific Dictates Droughts And Drenchings

Posted January 14, 2004:

• Sediment Samples Suggest How Plants Would Fare In Hotter, Drier Future

Posted October 14, 2003:

• Old Mosquito Theory Holds No Water

Posted October 12, 2003:

• New Study Ties African Drought To Ocean Temperatures

Posted September 18, 2003:

• Contaminated Water From Abandoned Mines Threatens Colorado Ski Areas

Posted September 5, 2003:

• NASA Helping To Understand Water Flow In The West

Posted August 21, 2003:

• Weather Extremes Shed Light On Prairie's Past And Environment's Future

Posted August 7, 2003:

• NASA Working To Take The Guesswork Out Of Long-Term Drought Prediction

Posted July 28, 2003:

• Increasing Carbon Dioxide Relieves Drought Stress In Corn, Researchers Say

Posted July 24, 2003:

• UCLA Study Explores Droughts In Canadian Prairies

Posted June 6, 2003:

• Plants And People Share A Molecular Signaling System, Researchers Discover

Posted May 22, 2003:

• Gene May Produce Drought-Resistant Plants

Posted April 14, 2003:

• Cloned Gene May Help Crops And Livestock Meet Future Needs

Posted March 10, 2003:

• Changes In Jet Stream, Storm Tracks, Linked To Prairie Drought Patterns, Study Finds

Posted February 20, 2003:

• New Age For Mungo Man, New Human History

Posted February 5, 2003:

• Young Plant's Natural Defenses Amount To More Than Just Its Seed; Chua Lab Discovers Protein That Regulates Early Growth Arrest

Posted December 27, 2002:

• Are Wildland Fires Fueling The Greenhouse?

Posted December 17, 2002:

• K-State Researchers Study Response Of Prairie Ecosystem; In Face Of Changes In Precipitation Variability, Climatic Extremes

Posted November 26, 2002:

• Stress Relief: Engineering Rice Plants With Sugar-Producing Gene Helps Them Tolerate Drought, Salt And Low Temperatures, Cornell Biologists Report

Posted November 6, 2002:

• Transition From El Nino To La Nina Affected Vegetation

Posted October 18, 2002:

• African Ice Core Analysis Reveals Catastrophic Droughts, Shrinking Ice Fields, Civilization Shifts

Posted October 14, 2002:

• Protein Family Key To Helping Plants Adapt, Purdue Researchers Report

Posted September 30, 2002:

• Sweating It Out: U.S. Cities Have 10 More Hot Nights A Year Than 40 Years Ago, Cornell Climate Researchers Discover

Posted July 22, 2002:

• New Research Site Established In Australia To Help Predict Climate Change

Posted May 10, 2002:

• In Midst Of Drought, Scientists Hunt For Water Vapor

Posted January 23, 2002:

• Counterintuitively, After Extreme Droughts, Wading Birds Flourish

Posted November 12, 2001:

• Pacific Recycles Last Year's Winter

Posted October 10, 2001:

• Crayfish Research Illustrates Environmental Health

Posted October 8, 2001:

• Common Native Plant Of Great Plains May Be Threatened By Climate Change

Posted June 29, 2001:

• Pacific Remains Locked In Three-Year-Old Pattern

Posted June 15, 2001:

• Biologists Discover Protein's Impact On Plant-Water Balance

Posted June 5, 2001:

• Enhanced Model Better Assesses Impact Of Climate Variability

Posted May 18, 2001:

• Changes In Sun’s Intensity Tied To Recurrent Droughts In Maya Region

Posted May 15, 2001:

• Droughts Aggravated By Dust In The Wind

Posted April 27, 2001:

• Household Ant Invasions Are Determined By Weather, Not Pesticide Use, New Study Finds

Posted April 12, 2001:

• NASA Demonstrates How Earth's Global Heat Engine Drives Plant Growth

Posted April 3, 2001:

• Rockefeller Researchers Identify Defense System In Plants; Protein Found To Confer Resistance To Drought

Posted February 20, 2001:

• Deep Green Spawns Deep Gene And Deep Time To Continue Work Toward A Complete Tree Of Life For The Green Plants

Posted January 23, 2001:

• Scientists Make Rain In Mexico

Posted November 3, 2000:

• Researchers Study Oldest Oak East Of The Mississippi

Posted October 10, 2000:

• University Of Texas Austin Biologist Develops New Evidence For Global Warming

Posted September 19, 2000:

• Himalayan Ice Reveals Climate Warming, Catastrophic Drought

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