Tag: climate change
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Airborne study reveals surprisingly large role of desert dust in cirrus formation
The PALMS instrument on NASA’s DC-8 during the ATom. Credit: Karl Froyd, NOAA / CIRES Every year, several billion metric tons of mineral dust are thrown ... -
Incredible! Snowfall forms an unusual tiger-striped pattern in the Kumtag Desert
Colorful footage recorded by a drone in China’s northwest Shanshan County, about 1,550 miles west of Beijing, has been making waves since it was posted online. ... -
Why do engines deteriorate faster in desert regions?
Airlines operating in desert regions face much higher costs for engine maintenance due to sand particles in the air. Photo: Getty Images. Understanding how modern jet ... -
Icy cirrus clouds born from desert dust, massive aerial survey shows
Every year, several billion metric tons of mineral dust are thrown ... -
The Sahara: the largest hot desert on Earth
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and the third largest desert behind Antarctica and the Arctic, which are both cold deserts. The ... -
Are financial regulators too political or not political enough?
Financial regulation becomes a catch-22: Regulators are too politicized to be left unattended, but they are not politicized enough for elected officials to control them adequately. ... -
BEYOND THE LOCAL: Unusual weather brings snow to the Sahara Desert
The Atlas Mountains in particular act as a snow trap due to their proximity to the Atlantic and their altitude This article from Jasper Knight, University ... -
Snowfall in the Sahara Desert may seem like a contradiction, but it’s not unprecedented
Snowfall in a hot desert may seem like a contradiction, but snow has been recorded many times in the Sahara Desert over the past few decades, ... -
Experiments with native trees and a seed bank to revive the desert ecosystem of Rajasthan
The Marwar region in western Rajasthan is prone to desertification, salinity of groundwater and loss of soil nutrients. A project on land near Jodhpur is experimenting ... -
Snowfall in the Sahara Desert: an unusual weather phenomenon
Snowfall in a hot desert may seem like a contradiction, but snow has been recorded several times in the Sahara Desert over the past decades, more ... -
Reviews | Can you turn a desert into a forest?
Over the past decade, millions Africans in the Sahel, a region of semi-arid lands that stretches thousands of kilometers below the Sahara, have been displaced by ... -
Snow falls in the Sahara desert for the fifth time in 40 years
New images of the snow-covered Sahara Desert surfaced on social media this week. We all know the Sahara as the driest desert in the world, with ... -
Breathtaking photos of the snow-capped Sahara desert are wowing the internet
Mesmerizing photos of the snow-capped Sahara Desert in northwestern Algeria have taken the internet by storm. Temperatures in the hottest desert in Algeria’s Naama province, in ... -
Invasive plants and climate change will alter desert landscapes
The towering saguaro cactus may be the icon of the American Southwest, but an invasive plant regularly encroaches on desert ecosystems. The intruder, a species of ... -
Israel’s Negev Desert Chosen to Feature on World’s First Mushroom Map
Israel’s Negev Desert has been chosen as one of 10 hotspots in the world where mushrooms – among nature’s invisible heroes – are to be mapped ... -
What a French discovered in Kalmykia, where the Russian desert meets Buddhism (PHOTOS)
Under a blazing sun, as we tread barefoot on the hot sand of the dunes worthy of the Sahara, a horse breeder approaches us. Keeping an ... -
Are African countries planting a giant wall of trees to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert?
An ambitious effort by a group of African countries to tackle the effects of climate change and desertification has been in the works since 2007. The ... -
Africa’s “Great Green Wall” changes direction to push back the desert
By CARLEY PETESCH November 13, 2021 GMT https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-deserts-plants-trees-ca67496e12692dcbc183fbcc9e34e9fd KEBEMER, Senegal (AP) – The idea was striking in its ambition: African countries aimed to plant trees in ... -
It’s flowering time in the “flowery desert” of Chile, despite the drought
SANTIAGO, October 22 (Reuters) – Chile’s Atacama sand dunes are once again bathed in vibrant colors after flowers sprouted in recent weeks in the world’s driest ... -
Flee the quicksand of the Sahara desert, due to climate change – BBC News
BBC News released this video clip, titled “Fleeing the quicksand of the Sahara Desert, due to climate change – BBC News†– below is their description. ... -
10 GW Desert to Power PV initiative secures $ 150 million in funding – pv magazine international
The Green Climate Fund has announced that it will provide US $ 150 million to the Desert to Power initiative – a multi-country African Development Bank-led ... -
Refugees in Cameroon turned a desert camp into a thriving forest
An ambitious reforestation project, led by refugees in Minawao, Cameroon, turned a vast desert area into forest – and changed people’s lives. The region, already hard ... -
Teamwork in the desert explains the global model of cooperation in birds – sciencedaily
A new study of the Kalahari Desert reveals that teamwork enables birds to cope with brutally unpredictable environments. This historic discovery explains the long-standing mystery of ... -
Cooperative breeding protects desert birds from breeding failures • Earth.com
Cooperative breeding in birds has long fascinated evolutionary scientists. This breeding strategy involves a single breeding pair which lays eggs and is then assisted in rearing ... -
Teamwork in the Desert Explains the Global Model of Bird Cooperation
Siberian Thrush Sparrow. Credit: Andrew Young New research in the Kalahari Desert has shown that teamwork enables birds to cope with woefully unpredictable environments. This groundbreaking ... -
Park land scorched by Bighorn Fire could offer clues to emerging desert threat | Local news
Ben Wilder, director of the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, stands among saguaros that were severely burned in the Bighorn Wildfire last year ... -
17 Desert Animals and Their Amazing Adaptations
The animals that make the desert their home must adapt not only to the lack of water but to the temperature fluctuations that swing from very ... -
20 Amazing Desert Plants and Where to Spot Them Around the World
A third of the world’s land surface is covered by desert. Some of the driest places on Earth are also home to some of the most ... -
Bank overdraft charges slashed in radical shake-up of ‘dysfunctional’ market | The Independent
Banks will no longer be able to charge customers rip-off fees for unauthorised overdrafts after the City watchdog unveiled radical reforms to fix a “dysfunctional” market. ... -
Biggest Deserts on Earth | Sahara Desert & Antarctica
Big deserts A dust storm whips over the western Sahara in January 2013. (Image credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC) Earth ... -
Visiting the Mysterious Fairy Circles of the Namib Desert
One evening earlier this spring, German naturalist Norbert Jürgens strayed from his expedition in the Namib Desert. He walked away from his campsite beside Leopard Rock, ... -
Past climate change has turned the Arabian desert into lush grasslands, allowing human migrations
“Our research positions northern Arabia as a crucial migratory route and a crossroads for early human populations,” said Dr White. “It helps us fill in the ... -
Chilean Desert Human Remains Reveal Its Early Farmers Fought To The Death | Science
The skull of an adult male, probably 25 to 30 years old, has a scarred trauma affecting the upper jaw. The injury was most likely caused ... -
“Red Planet” or “Sahara Desert”? This NASA photo is “too hot to handle”
NASA shared a stunning view of Earth’s largest desert, the Sahara Desert, in its latest Instagram post. The image was captured by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough ... -
Butterflies traverse vast Sahara desert in longest known insect migration
A beautiful lady butterfly in Morocco. Credit: Orio Massana Weather conditions have a great influence on the number of migrations. A species of butterfly found in ... -
Will fire forever change Arizona’s desert ecosystem?
A University of Arizona researcher is studying how fire affects the Sonoran Desert to help our rural / urban interface communities avoid increasing fire risks in ... -
It is 122F in Canada. Average temperatures in the Sahara Desert are only 114 F
More than 130 people have died in Canada after an unprecedented heat wave that broke temperature records. With most of them elderly or with underlying health ... -
Scientists Reveal How Painted Lady Butterflies Migrate Across Sahara Desert
A beautiful lady butterfly. Thomas J Simonsen, Russell J Garwood, Tristan Lowe After a 21-year study, an international team of researchers presented strong evidence suggesting that ... -
Scientists Reveal How Painted Lady Butterflies Migrate Through the Sahara Desert
A painted lady butterfly. Thomas J. Simonsen, Russell J. Garwood, Tristan Lowe After a 21-year study, an international team of researchers has presented strong evidence suggesting ... -
LARGER IMAGE Chinese farmers push back the desert – one tree at a time
WUWEI, China, June 3 (Reuters) – After a hard morning planting fresh sprouts in the dunes at the edge of the Gobi Desert, 78-year-old farmer Wang ... -
Life in the desert requires resilience, especially when lightning strikes
The Californian desert is a precious asset, famous for its high mountains and majestic valleys. But it’s not really a wasteland. “Human activity has been around ... -
“Why go to the Sahara when you can visit Kent?” “:” Desert “life at Dungeness | Kent holidays
The place which is sometimes called “England’s only desert” is accessible by a miniature railway line that connects a nuclear power station on one of the ... -
Remarkably high diversity of bees in a small expanse of desert • Earth.com
Scientists have discovered a hotspot of bee diversity in the protected Chihuahuan Desert along the US-Mexico border. Experts have identified more than 470 species of bees ... -
World Bank investments in the Great Green Wall: a desert mirage?
At the One Planet Biodiversity Summit on January 11, World Bank President David Malpass announced a major new World Bank Group funding commitment in the Sahelian ... -
Africa to stop the expansion of the Sahara Desert by creating a green blanket buffer zone
The Sahara is the largest desert in the world. It spans 11 North African countries and has grown by more than 10 percent over the past ... -
Vast portions of today’s Sahara Desert were green thousands of years ago
Engraving of Giraffes near Gobero in Niger, ca. 8000 years, witness of green times in the desert. Credit: Mike Hettwer, 2006, www.hettwer.com Past riverine activity in ... -
Sahara desert hit by ice blast as snow covers parts of Saudi Arabia
The Sahara Desert was hit by an icy explosion with temperatures dropping below freezing. Snow also blanketed parts of Saudi Arabia where the mercury reached 28 ... -
North Africa: Adrar issues exposed as Sahara desert heats up
The people of Algeria’s second province feel the heat in many ways, whether in their homes, classrooms or when they dare to go outside. This latest ... -
How the Namib Desert Beetle Could Help Solve Our Water Crisis
Two-thirds of the world’s population face extreme water scarcity at least one month a year. Many of these places are dry, arid deserts without a reliable ... -
Even birds adapted to the Kalahari desert cannot cope with global warming
There is a limit to the rise in the daily high air temperature before birds can no longer breed successfully, indicating that rapidly evolving climate change ... -
Succulent Karoo: the beautiful desert teeming with wild animals
This endangered species has only been found in two places, both inside the Succulent Karoo Desert. It is just one of the few creatures found in ... -
EarthSky | The Sahara Desert is growing
A seemingly endless sea of ​​sand, the Sahara stretches as far as the eye can see. Image via NSF / Wikimedia. The Sahara is already the ... -
The Sahara Desert is getting bigger. This is what it means
The Sahara, the largest hot desert in the world, is still getting bigger. In fact, it’s currently about 10 percent larger than it was almost a ... -
World’s largest desert has grown 10% since 1920, new study finds, partly due to climate change – ScienceDaily
The Sahara Desert has grown by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study by scientists at the University of Maryland. The research is ... -
How a very dry desert “recycles” fog and dew
Share this Item You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. The ocean is not the only source of fog and ... -
What really turned the Sahara Desert from a green oasis to a desert? | Science
One of the world’s most iconic deserts was once lush and green. What happened? Alamy When most people imagine an archetypal desert landscape – with its ... -
Namib Desert non-stormwater study reveals unexpected origins – sciencedaily
In a study in one of the world’s oldest and most biologically diverse deserts, scientists at Indiana University and Purdue University in Indianapolis explore the origins ... -
Why a South African desert blossoms in an annual flower show
It happened. Summer is over – in the upper half of the world. But as the blazing colors of fall begin their descent over the green ... -
Where is the Namib Desert?
A giant sand dune eclipses the trees of the desert in Namibia. The Namib Desert is a unique desert that stretches to the coast of Namibia. ... -
Where is the Sahara desert located?
5. Description The Sahara Desert is the largest “hot” desert in the world, spanning an area of ​​8,600,000 square kilometers. The desert encompasses large parts of ... -
An ancient river system flowed under the Sahara Desert (it would rank 12th for the largest drainage basin on Earth today)
Researchers have uncovered the remains of a vast ancient river system that crossed what is now known as the Sahara Desert. The river system was so ... -
Can a 4000 mile wall of trees stop the drift of the Sahara Desert?
• A version of this article was posted on the blog, Africa in Transition. The opinions expressed are those of the author. In February 2011, an ... -
A study shows binary shifts between forest, savannah, desert: large-scale climate-biodiversity tipping points
Researchers at Wageningen University find that in South America, Africa and Australia, under climate change, forests, savannas and treeless systems are not gradually succeeding, but rather ... -
Grains of sand in the million-year-old African desert
Although the sands of the desert may seem to move endlessly downwind, scientists are now discovering that grains of sand from Africa’s Namib Sand Sea have ... -
The sands of the Kalahari desert, a large and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide – sciencedaily
Desert sands are a large and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide from the global atmosphere, scientists heard on April 2, 2008 at the 162nd meeting of ... -
The Sahara Desert was once lush and populated
At the end of the last Ice Age, the Sahara Desert was just as dry and unattractive as it is today. But sandwiched between two periods ... -
CBBC Newsround | World | The Kalahari Desert will double in size
Global warming could double the size of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa, scientists say. It is already one of the largest deserts in the world, ...
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