Southwest China, including Yunnan Province, is prone to severe droughts due to the failure of summer monsoon precipitation. Despite the great potential for dendroclimatological studies in Yunnan, there have been very few ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2023
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Washington firefighters now have more planning time and a longer season to ignite the controlled burns they use to prevent massive wildfires threatening landscapes and homes and blanketing the state in choking smoke.
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2023
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With climate change, irrigating more crops in the United States will be critical to sustaining future yields, as drought conditions are likely to increase due to warmer temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns. Yet ...
Environment
Aug 14, 2023
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Iraq's rising temperatures and protracted drought are a "wake-up call" for the world, United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk said in Baghdad on Wednesday.
Environment
Aug 9, 2023
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New research suggests that the Horn of Africa is likely to become even drier, not wetter in the future as predicted by most climate models.
Earth Sciences
Aug 9, 2023
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Microbes are doing a lot under the soil surface that can't be seen with the naked eye—from sequestering carbon to building the foundation of Earth's crust. But even tiny microbes are feeling the stress of a hotter, drier ...
Ecology
Aug 4, 2023
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Seeds are important in seedling establishment, community renewal and restoration of degraded vegetation in sandy grassland ecosystems. Understanding how temperature and precipitation changes affect physiological characters ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2023
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The dry summer of 2018 hit Swedish forests hard—and hardest affected were the managed secondary forests. This according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden.
Plants & Animals
Jul 31, 2023
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The UK and the rest of the world will be vulnerable to larger swings between flooding and droughts as global temperatures rise, a new study has found.
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2023
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The Colorado River Basin provides freshwater to more than 40 million people within the semi-arid southwestern United States, including major cities such as Las Vegas and Los Angeles. However, between 2000 and 2021 the basin ...
