The donkey has shaped the history of humankind, both as a source of power for farm work, and of transportation in sometimes hard to reach areas.
Plants & Animals
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To help researchers model climate effects, the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission will measure the composition of minerals that become airborne dust.
Planetary Sciences
May 3, 2022
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Under a crescent moon, a Baja California treefrog wades among rushes and water hyacinth in San Felipe Creek—a wetland along the western edge of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park that researchers fear could be rapidly shrinking ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2022
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Desertification has always been a serious challenge for human beings, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Projections from CMIP5 support the expansion of arid and semi-arid regions with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 9, 2020
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A pair of researchers at the University of Hohenheim has found evidence that suggests planting forests in desert areas can lead to an increase in local rainfall. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Desert lands cover about a quarter of the Earth's land mass and are home to some half a billion people and yet they are commonly portrayed as extreme places with marginalized communities. The people who live there are perceived ...
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2017
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California officials have proposed spending nearly $400 million over 10 years to slow the shrinkage of the state's largest lake.
Environment
Mar 16, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Australia has found evidence that suggests that a desert region in Australia experienced a relatively short burst of wetter weather approximately ...
This image from Sentinel-1A was acquired over the Lake County in the US state of Oregon on 17 July.
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2014
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Three ancient river systems, now buried, may have created viable routes for human migration across the Sahara to the Mediterranean region about 100,000 years ago, according to research published September 11 in the open access ...
Archaeology
Sep 11, 2013
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