News tagged with dry climate

Underground water reservoirs for the Jordan Valley

Water scarcity in the lower Jordan valley is extreme and political differences among the neighboring countries are high. To supply the population living in this region with sufficient clean water, Israeli, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

6,000-year climate record suggests longer droughts, drier climate for Pacific Northwest

University of Pittsburgh-led researchers extracted a 6,000-year climate record from a Washington lake that shows that the famously rain-soaked American Pacific Northwest could not only be in for longer dry ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Garden of Eden: Paradise lost -- and found

Ancient gardens are the stuff of legend, from the Garden of Eden to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Heidelberg University in Germany, have uncovered ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Water hits and sticks: Findings challenge a century of assumptions about soil hydrology

Researchers have discovered that some of the most fundamental assumptions about how water moves through soil in a seasonally dry climate such as the Pacific Northwest are incorrect - and that a century of research based on ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

DNA analysis reveals the prime stock of Indonesian cattle

DNA analysis shows that Indonesian zebu cattle have a unique origin with banteng (Bos javanicus) as part of their ancestry.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Phytoplankton is changing along the Antarctic Peninsula

As the cold, dry climate of the western Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer and more humid, phytoplankton - the bottom of the Antarctic food chain - is decreasing off the northern part the peninsula and increasing further ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0