News tagged with desert annuals
Warming climate chills Sonoran Desert's spring flowers
Global warming is giving a boost to Sonoran Desert plants that have an edge during cold weather, according to new research.
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Researchers conclude that climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization
A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 28, 2012 |
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Desert dust intensifies summer rainfall in U.S. southwest
(Phys.org) -- Dust is more than something to be brushed off the furniture. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that dust kicked up from the desert floor acts like a heat pump in the atmosphere, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 21, 2012 |
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The desert Southwest: Oasis or mirage?
(Phys.org) -- The American West has a drinking problem. On farms and in cities, we are guzzling water at an alarming rate.
May 09, 2012 |
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British ornithologists track cuckoo birds migration route
(Phys.org) -- Nowhere it seems, are bird watchers more enthusiastic than in Britain, where groups congregate to watch and discuss the most intimate details of their favorite fowl. Of consternation to such ...
May 07, 2012 |
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Taking an innovative approach to battery design
You have to give Donald Sadoway points for style: Not many professors come to the last class of a semester dressed in black tie, decorate the table with linen and a vase of fresh roses, and toast their students ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Risk of major flooding in spring is low for the first time in four years
For the first time in four years, no area of the country faces a high risk of major to record spring flooding, largely due to the limited winter snowfall, according to NOAA’s annual Spring Outlook, which ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Sand layer plays a key role in protecting the underlying permafrost in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
The effect of sand layer on the ground temperature of permafrost is one of the unsolved scientific problems in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the sand layers were found to play a key role in the protection of the underlying permafrost ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Climate change takes back seat to decision-making in water security: researcher
Phoenix, the sixth largest U.S. city, is vulnerable to water shortages even without climate change because of heavy outdoor water use and fragmented governance, according to research conducted at the Decision Center for a ...
Feb 18, 2012 |
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'Talking dictionaries' document vanishing languages
Digital technology is coming to the rescue of some of the world's most endangered languages. Linguists from National Geographic's Enduring Voices project who are racing to document and revitalize struggling languages are ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Biodiversity enhances ecosystems global drylands: researchers
An international team of researchers including Dr. Bertrand Boeken of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev suggest in a new study that plant biodiversity preservation is ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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