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MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of moisture from the air, even in desert-like conditions.
In a desert seared by climate change, burrowers fare better than birds（图）
desert seared climate change burrowers fare birds
2021/3/5
In the arid Mojave Desert, small burrowing mammals such as the cactus mouse, the kangaroo rat and the white-tailed antelope squirrel are weathering the hotter, drier conditions triggered by climate ch...
Rising temps put desert shrub in high-efficiency mode（图）
Rising temps put desert shrub high-efficiency mode
2020/7/31
Death Valley doesn't seem like the best place to ride out rising temperatures amid a changing climate. But for the desert plants that live there, it's home -- and they face the choice to adapt or die....
Desert algae shed light on desiccation tolerance in green plants（图）
Desert algae shed light desiccation tolerance green plants
2020/7/10
Deserts of the U.S. Southwest are hot and dry -- extreme habitats for most plants -- but, remarkably, microscopic green algae that live there are extraordinarily tolerant of dehydration.These tiny gre...
Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change（图）
Collapse bird populations due heat stress climate change
2019/10/17
As temperatures rise, desert birds need more water to cool off. At the same time, deserts are becoming drier, setting some species up for a severe crash, if not extinction, according to a new study pu...
An ancient desert covered in sand dunes as far as the eye could see, where dinosaurs and small mammals once roamed, may have been the real Jurassic Park. Today, the Navajo Sandstone, as it's called, i...
Phoenix is losing birds, but homeowners' plants offer habitat for avian desert-dwellers（图）
Phoenix losing birds homeowners plants habitat avian desert-dwellers
2019/11/22
Find related stories on NSF's Long-Term Ecological Research Program at this link.Ecologists have long wondered about the impact of urbanization on bird biodiversity. Are cities with higher avian biodi...
Tracking decade-long changes in an Antarctic polar desert（图）
decade-long changes Antarctic polar desert
2017/9/4
An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and biological characteristics of Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys over the ensuing decade, new r...
Ant Agricultural Revolution Began 30 Million Years Ago in Dry,Desert-like Climate
Ant Agricultural Revolution 30 Million Years Ago in Dry Desert-like Climate
2017/4/27
Millions of years before humans discovered agriculture, vast farming systems were thriving beneath the surface of the Earth. The subterranean farms, which produced various types of fungi, were cultiva...
Extreme temperatures threaten desert songbirds with death by dehydration
Extreme temperatures threaten desert songbirds death by dehydration
2017/3/13
According to NASA, 2016 was the hottest year on historical record. Globally, the increase amounted to nearly 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. And while that might not sound like much of an increase, it could m...
Intensity of desert storms may affect ocean phytoplankton
desert storms ocean phytoplankton
2015/9/8
Each spring, powerful dust storms in the deserts of Mongolia and northern China send thick clouds of particles into the atmosphere. Eastward winds sweep these particles as far as the Pacific, where du...
Bighorn sheep went extinct on desert island in Gulf of California, study finds
Bighorn sheep extinct desert island Gulf of California
2014/3/28
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Using ancient DNA analysis and other techniques, a research team led by conservation biologists at the University of California, Riverside has determined that bighorn sheep, so nam...
An exhibition of desert painting opens at The University of Queensland（图）
desert painting exhibition
2014/7/17
The Art Gallery of South Australia’s travelling exhibition Desert Country offers an oasis of colour when it opens at The University of Queensland Art Museum on 4 August 2012.
Climate Change, Nitrogen Loss Threaten Plant Life in Arid Desert Soils（图）
Climate Change Nitrogen Loss Plant Life Arid Desert Soils
2009/11/24
In the Mojave Desert winds howl across this hottest place in North America, blowing sands across Death Valley and through empty ghost towns, swirling across treeless land for hundreds of miles. But ev...
NASA Invites Reporters to Observe Robotics Tests in Arizona Desert
Robotics Tests Arizona Desert
2009/9/8
NASA will hold the annual Desert "RATS," or Research and Technology Studies, field test in the Arizona desert this fall, hosting a media day for journalists on Sept. 15. Desert RATS will help determin...