News articles tagged with 'drought' (Page 6)
Climate change threatens Amazonian small farmers
— 26 Mar 2008 05:04 | EnvironmentA six-year study of Amazonian small farmers and their responses to climate change shows the farmers are vulnerable to natural catastrophes and risky land use practices, say Indiana…
Why juniper trees can live on less water
— 28 Feb 2008 23:01 | BiologyAn ability to avoid the plant equivalent of vapour lock and a favourable evolutionary history may explain the unusual drought resistance of junipers, some varieties of which are now…
Water planners call for fundamental shift to deal with changing climate
— 1 Feb 2008 18:58 | EnvironmentThe past is no longer a reliable base on which to plan the future of water management. So says a new perspectives piece written by a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists,…
Nitrogen fixation process in plants to combat drought in various species of legumes
— 25 Jan 2008 07:43 | BiologyThe regulation of the biological fixation of nitrogen in hydric stress conditions varies with the different species of legume plants studied. This was the conclusion of Ruben Ladrera…
Smaller storms drop larger overall rainfall in hurricane season
— 10 Dec 2007 17:26 | EnvironmentResearchers have found that when residents of the U.S. southeastern states look skyward for rain to alleviate a long-term drought, they should be hoping for a tropical storm over a…
Massive California fires consistent with climate change
— 24 Oct 2007 21:08 | EnvironmentThe catastrophic fires that are sweeping Southern California are consistent with what climate change models have been predicting for years, experts say, and they may be just a prelude…
Original climate benchmark makes a comeback
— 8 Oct 2007 08:56 | EnvironmentThe review, conducted this year by the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and CSIRO, found that while technology improvements such as conservation farming and…
Amazon forest shows unexpected resiliency during drought
— 22 Sep 2007 13:39 | EnvironmentDrought-stricken regions of the Amazon forest grew particularly vigourously during the 2005 drought, according to new research. The counterintuitive finding contradicts a prominent…