How India’s rice production can adapt to climate change challenges
Credit: University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. ¬- As the global population grows, the demand for food increases while arable land ...
Tag: Hydrology/Water Resources
Dartmouth-led team awarded NASA grant to assess changes in biodiversity hotspot in Peru
Team to use remotely sensed data to assess land cover changes in the Madre de DiosCredit: Photo by Jason Houston ...
Manure improves soil and microbe community
Credit: Lindsey Slaughter In the dry air and soil of Texas' Southern High Plains, improving soil health can be tough. ...
Geological engineers create landslide atlas of Kerala, India
Credit: Sajinkumar KS Dedicated to the thousands of lives lost in landslides, the new atlas assesses landslide risk in 13 ...
Earth’s deep mantle may have proton rivers made of superionic phases
Credit: Qingyagn Hu Pierfranco Demontis said in 1988, "Ice becomes a fast-ion conductor at high pressure and high temperatures," but ...
Assessing regulatory fairness through machine learning
Credit: Benami, et al. The perils of machine learning - using computers to identify and analyze data patterns, such as ...
‘Falling insect’ season length impacts river ecosystems
Credit: Takuya Sato Insects that fall from the surrounding forest provide seasonal food for fish in streams. Researchers at Kobe ...
SUTD study uncovers how big droughts in the Greater Mekong trigger CO2 emission bursts
Deeper understanding of the climate-water-energy nexus will significantly contribute towards planning and managing transnational power grids.Credit: SUTD A study on ...
MDI Biological Laboratory receives funding to address arsenic threat
Maine CDC grant will support improving access to safe drinking waterCredit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The MDI ...
Humans drive most of the ups and downs in freshwater storage at Earth’s surface
Credit: Cooley et al. 2021, Nature Water levels in the world's ponds, lakes and human-managed reservoirs rise and fall from ...
Chickpea genetics reduce need for chemicals
Credit: George Vandemark In recent years, hummus has become a pop culture food phenomenon, drawing praises from dieticians for the ...
Reclamation awards $3.6 million to improve desalination technologies
Credit: Alex Stephens/Bureau of Reclamation WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is awarding $3.6 million to 10 projects for advanced ...
Tundra vegetation shows similar patterns along microclimates from Arctic to sub-Antarctic
Credit: Photos: Julia Kemppinen and Peter C. le Roux. Researchers are in the search for generalisable rules and patterns in ...
Microplastic sizes in Hudson-Raritan Estuary and coastal ocean revealed
Rutgers research shows stormwater could be important source of plastic pollutionCredit: NOAA Rutgers scientists for the first time have pinpointed ...
URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process
Results have implications for life on MarsCredit: Photo courtesy Justine Sauvage NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - February 26, 2021 - A team ...
Record-high Arctic freshwater will flow to Labrador Sea, affecting local and global oceans
Credit: Francesca Samsel and Greg Abram Freshwater is accumulating in the Arctic Ocean. The Beaufort Sea, which is the largest ...
‘Problem of missing ice’ finally solved by movement of the earth’s crust
A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 yearsCredit: NIOZ, Kim Sauter During ice ages, the global mean ...
Graphene Oxide membranes could reduce paper industry energy costs
Credit: Georgia Tech The U.S. pulp and paper industry uses large quantities of water to produce cellulose pulp from trees. ...
Traditional hydrologic models may misidentify snow as rain, new citizen science data shows
Tahoe Rain or Snow weather spotters help reduce inaccuracies in estimating precipitation in the Sierra NevadaCredit: Desert Research Institute Reno, ...
Tunnels to become CO2-neutral energy suppliers
Brenner Base Tunnel as a Lighthouse ProjectCredit: © BBT SE After completion in about ten years, the Brenner base tunnel ...