Desert News
May 14, 2024
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Apr. 25, 2024 Dust can have a huge impact on local air quality, food security, energy supply and public health. Previous studies have found that dust levels are decreasing across India, particularly northern India, the Persian Gulf Coast and much of the Middle ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world's population despite taking up about 1.5% of land area. But in many places, climate change and anthropogenic activities threaten oases' fragile ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall -- how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by microbiologists. The study reveals that desert soil bacteria are ...
Mar. 19, 2024 Namibia's legendary fairy circles are mysterious, circular, bald patches in the dry grasslands on the edge of the Namib Desert. Their formation has been researched for decades and has recently been the subject of much debate. With extensive ...
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Feb. 13, 2024 Desert ants find their way during an early learning phase with the help of the Earth's magnetic field. The associated learning process leaves clear traces in their nervous ...
Jan. 17, 2024 The warming climate has not lead to an expected increase in atmospheric moisture over arid and semi-arid regions of the world. The finding, which has ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Beaches and dunes globally squeezed by roads and buildings. Beaches and dunes are becoming increasingly trapped between rising sea levels and infrastructure. Researchers found that today, when ...
Dec. 13, 2023 This holiday season brings surprising news about your Christmas tree. Scientists just discovered that globally, trees growing in wetter regions are more sensitive to drought. That means if your tree ...
Dec. 13, 2023 What would be the most effective use of a certain plot of land in terms of the climate crisis: planting a forest, which is a natural means of absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or erecting ...
Oct. 30, 2023 A team of scientists has revealed the mechanism a desert plant native to the United Arab Emirates uses to capture moisture from the desert air in order to ...
Oct. 27, 2023 How fast does a droplet flow along a fiber? It depends on the diameter of the fiber... and also on its substructure! These are the findings of a study conducted by researchers who are interested in ...
Oct. 25, 2023 The exciting discovery of three new species of a small Australian marsupial has been tempered by the sad fact that each of the newly identified species of mulgara is likely already ...
Oct. 4, 2023 Paleolithic human populations survived even in the coldest and driest upland parts of Spain, according to a new ...
Oct. 4, 2023 Scientists have found early human migrants left Africa for Eurasia, across the Sinai peninsula and on through Jordan, over 80-thousand years ago. Researchers have proved there was a 'well-watered ...
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Sep. 22, 2023 Using ancestry decomposition techniques an international research team has revealed a deeply divergent ancestry among admixed populations from the Angolan Namib desert. This unique genetic heritage ...
Sep. 21, 2023 Reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere will take more than cutting emissions -- we will also need to capture and store the excessive volumes of already-emitted carbon. A team of plant scientists argue ...
Sep. 13, 2023 A pioneering study has shed new light on North African humid periods that have occurred over the past 800,000 years and explains why the Sahara Desert was periodically ...
Aug. 21, 2023 Researchers successfully harvest water from the atmosphere using ambient ...
Aug. 11, 2023 Using a novel method to detect microbial activity in biological soil crusts, or biocrusts, after they are wetted, a research team in a new study uncovered clues that will lead to a better ...
Aug. 2, 2023 Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be ...
July 25, 2023 Lower parasitism and predation in urban habitats may contribute to the invasion success of brown widow spiders, according to new ...
July 18, 2023 A new study compiles the scope of the problem of the global dispersal of harmful microorganisms through the upper layers of the ...
July 7, 2023 Scientists in Japan have used a global climate model to show that dust from land without snow cover in the Arctic is a major source of particles that form ice crystals in Arctic low-level clouds. ...
June 15, 2023 Engineers synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of moisture from the air, even in desert-like ...
June 14, 2023 Newly planted vegetation on coastal sand dunes can accelerate erosion from extreme ...
May 31, 2023 Researchers report that in the absence of visible landmarks, desert ants increase the likelihood that foraging nest mates will find their way home quickly and safely by elevating their nest entrance. ...
May 19, 2023 New evidence for the presence of ancient lakes in some of the most arid regions of South Africa suggests that Stone Age humans may have been more widespread across the continent than previously ...
May 19, 2023 Researchers have identified engravings in Jordan and Saudi Arabia as the oldest known scaled building plans in human ...
May 11, 2023 An international team has reconstructed the evolution of groundwater in the Great Basin, USA -- one of the driest regions on Earth -- up to 350,000 years into the past with unprecedented accuracy. ...
May 11, 2023 A new study shows that sand dunes can serve as repositories of fire history and aid in expanding scientific understanding of fire regimes around the ...
May 1, 2023 Researchers have characterized two different types of surface water in the hyperarid salars -- or salt flats -- that contain much of the world's lithium deposits. This new characterization ...
Apr. 20, 2023 Biocrusts play a crucial role in maintaining soil health and ecosystem sustainability, but they are currently under assault. Human activities including agriculture, urbanization, and off-road vehicle ...
Apr. 18, 2023 Researchers have discovered how long ago the Australian Nullarbor plain dried out, with a new approach shedding light on how ancient climate change altered some of the driest regions of our ...
Apr. 11, 2023 An extreme closeup of feathers from a bird with an uncanny ability to hold water while it flies could inspire the next generation of absorbent ...
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- Ancient Climate Change Solves Mystery of Vanished South African Lakes
- Oldest Architectural Plans Detail Mysterious Desert Mega Structures
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- Great Basin: History of Water Supply in One of the Driest Regions in the USA
- Scientists Discover Fire Records Embedded Within Sand Dunes
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- The Counting of Nine Billion Trees Could Help Manage Climate Credits and Nature Restoration
- How Patterns Emerge in Salt Deserts
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- With Rapidly Increasing Heat and Drought, Can Plants Adapt?
- Aquatic Organisms Respond to Flooding and Drought Disturbance in Different Ways
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- A New Model Could Help Stall Shifting Sand Dunes, Protecting Infrastructure and Ecosystems
- A Cost Effective and Quick Way to Find Groundwater in Arid Regions
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- Large Scale Solar Parks Cool Surrounding Land
- Late Persistence of Human Ancestors at the Margins of the Monsoon in India
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- Fungal Spores from 250-Year-Old Collections Given New Lease of Life
- Ways to Tackle Water Security Challenges in World's Drylands