The aridity index is an invaluable tool used for estimating how dry (or how humid) a location is based on the precipitation and evapotranspiration occurring in the area. It is useful for predicting ...
Authors D. Bertuol-Garcia, L. van den Brink, M. Carbognani, M. H. Chandregowda, A. C. Churchill, D. F. Cusack, M. Dubbert, J. S. Dukes, M. E. DuPre, N. Eisenhauer, T ...
SC Therapeutics, with University North Carolina, Imperial College London, and Boston University, announced publication on Tuesday in Nature Scientific Reports of results from a multi-institutional ...
A new Columbia Engineering study indicates that the world will experience more frequent and more extreme drought and aridity than currently experienced in the coming century, exacerbated by both ...
Global drylands are experiencing faster-than-average warming and are also among the most vulnerable regions to climate change. Meteorological metrics all point to an emerging trend of increased ...
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A sweeping survey of rhizosphere soils from four Chinese deserts shows that rare and abundant bacterial taxa around the ...
In a simulation study, researchers showed that limiting global warming to 1.5°C rather than 2°C will mitigate aridification in some regions of the world including the Mediterranean, western Europe, ...
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Aridity extends over three-quarters of the Earth, and the Mediterranean is one of the most affected areas
77% of the Earth's surface has experienced drier than usual conditions in the last three decades, according to a scientific report sponsored by the UN and presented at the COP16 on desertification ...
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