News articles tagged with 'precipitation'
Cutting carbon dioxide helps prevent drying
— 28 Mar 2011 18:42 | EnvironmentRecent climate modelling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give the Earth a wetter climate in the short term. New research from Carnegie…
Rain in Spain is on the decline
— 2 Feb 2011 16:40 | EnvironmentA study led by the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) has studied precipitation trends in Spain's 10 hydrological basins over the 1946 to 2005 period. The results show that precipitation…
More frequent drought likely in eastern Africa
— 29 Jan 2011 18:37 | EnvironmentThe increased frequency of drought observed in eastern Africa over the last 20 years is likely to continue as long as global temperatures continue to rise, according to new research…
UC Davis study shows plants moved downhill, not up, in warming world
— 21 Jan 2011 18:35 | EnvironmentIn a paper published today in the journal Science, a University of California, Davis, researcher and his co-authors challenge a widely held assumption that plants will move uphill in…
Wildlife biologists use dogs' scat-sniffing talents for good
— 11 Jan 2011 17:11 | BiologyIt will come as no surprise to dog owners that their four-legged friends have a flair for sniffing out the excrement of other animals. Now, biologists at the University of California,…
Team of scientists predicts continued death of forests in southwestern US due to climate change
— 14 Dec 2010 20:06 | EnvironmentIf current climate projections hold true, the forests of the Southwestern United States face a bleak future, with more severe - and more frequent - forest fires, higher tree death rates,…
As Arctic temperatures rise, tundra fires increase, researchers find
— 18 Nov 2010 11:51 | EnvironmentIn September, 2007, the Anaktuvuk River Fire burned more than 1,000 square kilometres of tundra on Alaska's North Slope, doubling the area burned in that region since record keeping…
Climate change: Water reservoir glacier
— 9 Nov 2010 11:55 | EnvironmentGlaciers of large mountain regions contribute, to some extent considerably, to the water supply of certain populated areas. However, in a recent study conducted by Innsbruck glaciologists…
Land 'evapotranspiration' taking unexpected turn: Huge parts of world are drying up
— 11 Oct 2010 10:33 | EnvironmentThe soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a group of researchers…
First-of-its-kind study finds alarming increase in flow of water into oceans
— 5 Oct 2010 05:01 | EnvironmentFreshwater is flowing into Earth's oceans in greater amounts every year, a team of researchers has found, thanks to more frequent and extreme storms linked to global warming. All told,…