Drought News
December 24, 2024
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Dec. 19, 2024 Scientists have successfully identified a previously unknown species to Southern California from fossilized seeds, revealing a drought-fueled dance between two species of juniper with lessons for the ...
Dec. 16, 2024 Despite the population being almost four times larger than it was in 1982, a new study published in the journal Ecology suggests the northern muriqui monkeys remain at risk, especially in the face of ...
Dec. 16, 2024 New research shows that many wildlife species in the U.S., like the endangered giant kangaroo rat, will face much more frequent and severe droughts in the future. By 2050-2080, year-long droughts ...
Nov. 16, 2024 The Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since. The shift could indicate Earth's continents have entered a persistently drier ...
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Oct. 31, 2024 An international research collaboration has completed the most detailed genome assembly to date of grass pea (Lathyrus ...
Oct. 29, 2024 A groundbreaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up ...
Oct. 23, 2024 In the 1990s, the San Miguel Island fox nearly went extinct, with numbers dropping to just 15. A recovery program increased their population by 2010, ...
Oct. 16, 2024 Climate change has a negative impact on food security. Researchers have now conducted a study to investigate the natural variation of different chickpea genotypes and their resistance to drought ...
Oct. 10, 2024 They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological ...
Oct. 9, 2024 New research identifies for the first time the genes that help plants grow under stressful conditions -- with implications for producing more sustainable food crops in the face of global climate ...
Oct. 4, 2024 A new study shows environmental conditions in migratory birds' winter homes carry over to affect their ability to survive spring migration and the breeding ...
Sep. 18, 2024 A team of scientists alarmed by the loss of biodiversity across the world due to climate change has proposed a new approach to managing vulnerable ...
Sep. 16, 2024 The cumulative adversity index for people quantifies numerous measures of hardship, such as poverty and stress to understand health and longevity over the individual's lifespan. A similar tool could ...
Sep. 12, 2024 Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...
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Oct. 30, 2024 A study using meteorological data and remote sensors, aims to furnish livestock farmers with information to promote more efficient ...
Sep. 3, 2024 Researchers have identified the seasonal and climate-based cycles of Valley fever, an emerging but dangerous fungal disease spread through dust in the ...
Aug. 13, 2024 A recent study details how trees in New York City and Boston are more negatively impacted by heat waves and drought than trees of the same species in nearby rural forests. The finding highlights the ...
Aug. 5, 2024 Using state of the art techniques, researchers use vibrations from traffic to measure underground soil ...
July 29, 2024 Cotton is woven into the very fabric of our lives, from soft T-shirts to comfortable jeans and cozy bedsheets. It's the world's leading renewable textile fiber and the backbone of a global ...
July 22, 2024 Climate change will have a considerable influence on the biodiversity and productivity of meadows and pastures. However, according to the results of the large-scale climate and land use experiment ...
July 12, 2024 Tree-planting campaigns have been underway in the United States, especially in cities, as part of climate mitigation efforts given the many environmental benefits of urban forests. But a new study ...
July 12, 2024 Researchers have produced a cotton quality module -- a part of a larger forecasting tool -- allowing cotton producers to better monitor crop quality under changing environmental ...
July 2, 2024 Scientists have developed a near chromosome-level genome for the Mojave poppy bee, a specialist pollinator of conservation ...
June 30, 2024 The desert moss Syntrichia caninervis is a promising candidate for Mars colonization thanks to its extreme ability to tolerate harsh conditions lethal to most life forms. The moss is well known for ...
June 27, 2024 Climate change, drought, increased temperature and other stressors challenge agricultural sustainability. Researchers have now made an unexpected discovery: zinc plays a pivotal role in the plant ...
June 21, 2024 A professor analyzes the conflicting impacts of human activities on extreme spring ...
June 6, 2024 The annual killifish lives in regions with extreme drought. A research group now reports that the early embryogenesis of killifish diverges from that of other species. Unlike other fish, their body ...
May 22, 2024 Maize can grow successfully in very different local conditions. An international study has now demonstrated the important role of the plant root system. The researchers analyzed more than 9,000 ...
May 20, 2024 A team delves into the spatiotemporal patterns of water volume and total organic carbon concentration of agricultural ...
May 3, 2024 Recent findings that plants employ a drought-survival mechanism to also defend against nutrient-sucking pests could inform future crop breeding programs aimed at achieving better broadscale pest ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Researchers found that forests with higher trait diversity not only adapt better to climate change but may also thrive. The study unveiled how tree functional trait diversity plays a pivotal role in ...
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. ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Plants with multiple sets of chromosomes, known as polyploids, are salt-tolerant or drought-resistant and often achieve higher yields. However, newly formed polyploid plants are often sterile or have ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Researchers have identified 14 genes that thale cress -- a plant commonly used in genetic investigations since its genome is well documented -- express more when responding to five specific ...
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- Study Examines Urban Forests Across the United States
- Researchers Create Groundbreaking Cotton Quality Model to Aid Farmers
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- Scientists Assemble a Richer Picture of the Plight and Resilience of the Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog
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- Is the Amazon Forest Approaching a Tipping Point?
- Controlling Root Growth Direction Could Help Save Crops and Mitigate Climate Change
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- Money to Burn: Wealthy, White Neighborhoods Losing Their Heat Shields
- The Waxy Surface Protecting Plants Might Hold the Key to Developing Stronger Crops
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- We Could Sequester CO2 by 're-Greening' Arid Lands, Plant Scientists Say
- How Climate Warming Could Disrupt a Deep-Rooted Relationship
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- Forest Can Adapt to Climate Change, but Not Quickly Enough
- Roots Are Capable of Measuring Heat on Their Own
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- Female Butterflies Breed Despite Male Shortage
- Temperature, Drought Influencing Movement of Plains Bison
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- Multifunctional Patch Offers Early Detection of Plant Diseases, Other Crop Threats
- Increased Droughts Are Disrupting Carbon-Capturing Soil Microbes, Concerning Ecologists
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- Human-Wildlife Conflicts Rising Worldwide With Climate Change
- Shrinking Age Distribution of Spawning Salmon Raises Climate Resilience Concerns
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- Researcher Discovers Threshold That Triggers Drought Response in Forests
- Detecting the Impact of Drought on Plants With User-Friendly and Inexpensive Techniques
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- Aquatic Organisms Respond to Flooding and Drought Disturbance in Different Ways
- Understanding Plants Can Boost Wildland-Fire Modeling in Uncertain Future