News tagged with rainy period

Virus-resistant grapevines

Jul 02, 2009 | 2 / 5 (2) | 0

Viruses can cost winegrowers an entire harvest. If they infest the grapevines, even pesticides are often no use. What's more, these chemicals are harmful to the environment. Researchers are growing plants ...

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Canadians robbed of sunlight during fall

Space & Earth / Environment

Dec 08, 2006 | 1.9 / 5 (8) | 0

Canadians feeling blue during the last three months shouldn't be surprised -- they were robbed of more than 100 hours of sunlight, climatologists said.

Dry season brings on measles in sub-Saharan Africa

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Feb 06, 2008 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Measles epidemics in Niger fluctuate wildly from one season to another but the timing of the outbreaks always coincides with the end of the annual rainy season, according to an international team of researchers.

Diet secrets of 'the Royals' -- Elephant tail hair isotopes show cattle out-munch pachyderms

Biology / Plants & Animals

Apr 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Two weeks after the rains begin, an elephant family named "the Royals" usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy and birth. But when they wandered off their African reserve one rainy season, ...

Cicada sounds could damage hearing

Medicine & Health / Other

Jun 08, 2007 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Experts say the piercing mating call of the 17-year cicadas, which have taken parts of the Chicago area by storm, could cause damage to the ears of humans.

Flu viruses take one-way ticket out of Asia, then travel the world

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Apr 16, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 0

Seasonal influenza strains constantly evolve in overlapping epidemics in Asia and sweep the rest of the world each year, an international research team has found.

Amazon rainforest grows best in dry season

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Mar 21, 2006 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

University of Arizona scientists say they've made a surprising discovery: the undisturbed Amazon rainforest grows best during the dry season

Rainfall to decrease over Iberian Peninsula

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 23, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (5) | 1

Scientists have recorded a decline in winter precipitation over the past 60 years in Spain, and they now forecast that precipitation will also decrease in spring and summer. A team from the Pyrenean Institute ...

Establishing healthy shrubs not the water-consuming task many think, research shows

Space & Earth / Environment

Sep 24, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Good news for your utility bills and the environment: New University of Florida research shows that landscape shrubs need much less water to establish healthy roots than you might expect.

Satellites illuminate pollution's influence on clouds

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

May 27, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Clouds have typically posed a problem to scientists using satellites to observe the lowest part of the atmosphere, where humans live and breathe, because they block the satellite's ability to capture a clear, ...