Drought News

Posted September 7, 2010:

• Restoring Coastal Wetlands? Check the Soil

Posted September 2, 2010:

• Ants Take on Goliath Role in Protecting Trees in the Savanna from Elephants

Posted August 26, 2010:

• Novel Mechanism Protects Plants Against Freezing; Insights Could Add to Understanding of Drought Tolerance Also

Posted August 25, 2010:

• Growing Drought-Tolerant Crops Inching Forward

Posted August 23, 2010:

• Plants Give Up Some Deep Secrets of Drought Resistance

Posted August 20, 2010:

• Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth

Posted August 2, 2010:

• New Study Examines Effects of Drought in the Amazon

Posted July 30, 2010:

• Scientists Test Cutting-Edge Technology for Underwater Mapping at Tahoe Basin

Posted July 22, 2010:

• Extreme Archaeology: Divers Plumb the Mysteries of Sacred Maya Pools

Posted July 12, 2010:

• Staggering Tree Loss from 2005 Amazon Storm

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Redwood Forest Ecosystem of Northern California Depends on Fog to Stay Hydrated During Rainless Summers

Posted July 6, 2010:

• Changing Climate Could Alter Meadows' Ecosystems, Says Researcher
• Team Devises Technique to Predict Dust Storms With Infrared Satellite

Posted June 30, 2010:

• New Heat-Tolerant Beans Released

Posted June 25, 2010:

• Prepare for Hotter and Drier Southwestern US, Climate Experts Urge

Posted June 16, 2010:

• Climate Changes in the Atlantic Can Affect Drought in Distant Regions

Posted June 9, 2010:

• A Cooler Pacific May Have Severely Affected Medieval Europe, North America

Posted May 25, 2010:

• 20th Century One of Driest in Nine Centuries for Northwest Africa

Posted May 14, 2010:

• Screening Crop Plants for Toxins

Posted May 13, 2010:

• Bacterial Genes That Improve Plant Growth by 40% Identified

Posted April 22, 2010:

• Asia's Most Devastating Droughts Reconstructed
• Heavy Snowfall Over Himalayas Makes Drought Over India More Likely

Posted April 15, 2010:

• Common Plant Growth Regulator Helps Creeping Bentgrass Weather Drought

Posted April 1, 2010:

• Bringing Dehydrated Plants 'Back to Life': Possible Key to Desiccation-Tolerant Plants

Posted March 29, 2010:

• Did Climate Influence Angkor's Collapse? Evidence Suggests Changing Environment Can Bring Down a Civilization

Posted March 24, 2010:

• Biofuel Mandates Would Make Corn Shortfall Costly, Experts Say

Posted March 11, 2010:

• New Study Debunks Myths About Vulnerability of Amazon Rain Forests to Drought

Posted March 10, 2010:

• Plant Hormone Increases Cotton Yields in Drought Conditions

Posted March 4, 2010:

• First Micro-Insurance Plan Uses Mobile Phones and Weather Stations to Shield Kenya's Farmers

Posted March 3, 2010:

• 'World's Most Useful Tree' Provides New Low-Cost Water Purification Method for Developing World

Posted February 20, 2010:

• Roots Key to Second Green Revolution

Posted February 19, 2010:

• Arctic Glacial Dust May Affect Climate and Health in North America and Europe

Posted February 15, 2010:

• New Maize Varieties to Boost Grain Production in West and Central Africa

Posted February 7, 2010:

• Conservation from Space: Landscape Diversity Helps to Conserve Insects

Posted February 4, 2010:

• Moss Helps Chart the Conquest of Land by Plants

Posted February 1, 2010:

• Researchers Fight World Hunger by Mapping the Soybean Genome

Posted January 29, 2010:

• Learning from Climate's Sedimental Journey

Posted January 20, 2010:

• Brazil's Northeast Under the Vagaries of the Oceans

Posted January 19, 2010:

• Mixed Water Portfolio Helps Thirsty Cities

Posted January 12, 2010:

• Could Bamboo Help in Remediation of Waste Sites?

Posted December 30, 2009:

• Major Australian Droughts Traced to Different Causes

Posted December 15, 2009:

• Climate Change Does Not Always Lead to Conflict

Posted December 14, 2009:

• California's Troubled Waters: Satellite-Based Findings Reveal Significant Groundwater Loss in Central Valley

Posted December 13, 2009:

• Newly Identified Enzymes Help Plants Sense Elevated CO₂ and Could Lead to Water-Wise Crops

Posted December 11, 2009:

• Health Effects of Low-Intensity Warfare Studied

Posted December 3, 2009:

• Indigenous Delegates to UN Talks in Copenhagen Debut Video Evidence, Accounts of Climate Change

Posted November 27, 2009:

• Drought-Related Shrinking Processes Detected in Living Roots in the Soil for the First Time

Posted November 23, 2009:

• Time of Day Matters to Thirsty Trees

Posted November 19, 2009:

• Scientists Decode Maize Genome

Posted November 18, 2009:

• How Crops Survive Drought

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